Pushing Back Against Teen Culture Analysis

In “The C Word in the Hallway”, author, Anna Quindlen expresses her pleas to reach out and end the neglect of teen struggles. Bullying, break-ups, isolation, family issues, academics, and more could result as contributing factors to the hardships of teenagers. Unfortunately, “role models” setting the examples, overlook the fatal outcomes of these hardships. The poor example taught is to mask our struggles and toughen through them. This masking method can only be effective for so long before one cracks. In her article regarding the uprising of mental health issues found in teenagers, Anna Quindlen calls to action on parents, educators, and politicians to emphasize the importance of recognizing teenage hardships, so the teenagers can too recognize

Parents now days believe teens are misbehaving and not listening more so than teens in years past. However, kids in years past had more control and authority of their own life’s unlike today’s kids who have to rely on their parents. Adults now days have complete authority over teens unlike teens in years past. Teens back in the day were able to find work at an early age and could choose whether or not they wanted to attend school. With that being said, today’s teenager’s growth to adulthood is being prolonged due to society’s changes. Coontz states, “relations between adults and teens are especially strained today, not because youths have lost their childhood, but because they are not being adequately prepared for the new requirements of adulthood.” (McIntyre, 2014, p. 8) Therefore, society’s sociological and historical changes are the real reason for adult and teen

For centuries, teenagers have fought with their parents over the amount of freedom they should have. Parents always fight to reel in their child’s freedom, while teens argue that they need more privileges. While parents certainly have an argument in protecting their kids from the big, scary world, ultimately teenagers need to be exposed to the dangers of everyday life in order to prepare them for entering it on their own. If they have no real-life experience, they cannot be expected to handle it well when they leave their parents’ houses. In order to teach kids responsibility and life skills, kids should be allowed freedom to work and be out on their own, but have certain restrictions on a case-to-case basis in terms of curfews and household obligations.

For those of us that are parents, we know that raising a child to adulthood is not an easy task but one which we do lovingly (hopefully) and responsibly. I’ll go out on a limb to say here that everyone agrees that the teenage years are the most challenging. The general consensus is that teenagers are unruly, aggressive, careless, spoiled and dependent on technology. On the other hand, I believe along with a small group of other parents that teenagers are also brilliant and in the process of becoming and reaching their potential and that they deserve much more respect than what they are given.

Teen ager would argue that to be independant is to be free. Although parents would say their child’s desire for independence is strenuous like an uphill climb. This is confirmed in W.D. Valgardson’s short story “Saturday Climbing” where Barry struggles to climb a deceiving rock face which is analogous to his relationship with his daughter. Not only if Moira will go to college in the upcoming year but also which campus she will attend.Through this narrative, Valgardson suggests that when parents provide copious amounts of security, conflict will arise and children will rebel; only when a balance is found between security and allowing independence will the relationship be harmonious.

Modern culture promotes having fun and doing what feels good in the moment. Connie has poor communication with her family, shown by her rebellious behavior and lack of respect for her parents. She chooses to distance herself from her family which results in them not being there when she needs them the most. Parents are supposed to be protectors and leaders in their children’s lives and when these key aspects are not present, a window is opened for the victimization of youth. The consequences of such situations result in a predicament like Connie’s and becomes an immense concern for the effects that modern culture has on

Nick Gillespie article, “Millennials Are Selfish and Entitled, and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame”(2014), asserts that as the title states, that children are the newest generation of children are the way they are due to an overly involved parent generation. Gillespie backs up this claim through his use of statistics. These statistics demonstrate the restrictions on children in today’s time period. Gillespie’s purpose is to point out the way helicopter parents are being overbearing and alert the reader to problems that they may be unaware of. Next, Gillespie discusses the nature of how children are acting and the fact that consumption of violence, and other forms allotted to previous generations has been cut off with little to no effect in

As we age, our lives are divided into stages with inescapable hardships. The most difficult of these stages has proven to be adolescence and young adulthood, the years in which our personalities are defined. This juncture is the pinnacle of maturation, however, it is gradually becoming a plateau wherein inactivity is most prevalent. It is indisputable that American children and young adults alike are lingering in their youth for far too long. Many in their teens and twenties are holding tight to the freedom of childhood by depending on their parents, refusing to settle down, and avoiding responsibility. Through their lack of independence, inability to commit and their indolence, certain action must be taken against adolescents

In modern times, numerous teenagers are eager to be adults. They glorify the idea of

Teenagers have proven themselves mature and able to handle responsibilities at an early age in the views of some people, but what is ignored is all the consequences of handling over these privileges earlier than necessary.

The article “The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet” by Richard Knox persuades parents and children that a teenager’s brain is not fully developed by using ethos, logos, and figurative language. Knox’s use of ethos contributes to Francis Jensen’s claim that teens do not have fully developed brains by showing that Jensen is credible enough to speak about it. For example, Jensen states that she often thought “like all parents of teenagers, ‘What were they thinking?’” (Knox 1). This is an example of ethos because Knox shows that Jensen is a credible parent, because she wonders the same thing as any other normal parent out there.

Teen activism is when teens come together and try to make a difference. They do different things things that affect the world in a variety of ways. For example, Malala fights for women's rights and for girls to get an education. Alex Lin helps reduces the electronic waste in the environment. Lastly, Faye Carey gives abandoned animals a new home. All three of these teen activists have done something that has helped the world.

Did you know that elephant owners in Asia can keep their elephants in their yard with a simple piece of twine and a post in the ground? I’m sure you’re probably thinking, “How is that possible? Elephants are strong, smart, and have potential to do huge things.” The answer has nothing to do with the twine and the post; but it has everything to do with the twine around the elephant’s mind. The thing is, teenagers are a lot like elephants. We are strong, smart, and have incredible potential, but somehow we are held back by a tiny piece of string, held back by a lie; the lie that teenagers are rebellious, good for nothing, lazy bums. Today I am going to be talking about how this lie affects the relationship between adults and

This article explores the results from a research conducted in a study of teenager’s behavior, in order to find how widespread hunger has afflicted American adolescents. In the survey 193 youths in focus groups in five states were studied. The students that were studied ranged from urban centers to rural suburbs in order to broaden the outcome results. The main focus of this study was to see what different teenagers micromanaged themselves to do in order to provide not only themselves with nourishment but their families as well. The piece “Some hungry teens turn to crime, sex for food” defines that one in five children under the age of 18 including 6.8 million youths ages 10 to 17 live in a household with limited or uncertain access to food,

We would like to start this speech off with a little comparison between what parents think and what we, being the teenagers, think. It is well known that parents and teenagers have not been always been known to agree on everything. Whether it was that haircut you got our that meal they tried to feed you. Sometimes we just don’t agree on everything. For instant, parenting in general, is often described differently depending on who you ask. According to some parents, “parenting is 50% love, 10% lies, 10% yelling and 30% unclogging toilets”. To them, “parenting is basically just listening to yourself talk because nobody else is.”. However, according to some, well most teenagers, “parenting is embarrassing us whenever, wherever 90% of the time”. To us, “parenting is having our own personalized cook, counsellor, chauffeur and bank”. So yeah, there's a little bit of controversy there. But parents, they’re great, I mean, it is an huge understatement to say that you guys are awesome! To