“Teenagers are the most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children but expected to act like adults”. As a teenager myself, I agree with this saying that adults have been continuously stereotyping us teenagers. Due to this stereotype teens are considered irresponsible, immature, and unreliable.
Adolescents are often viewed by adults as being too irresponsible because these adults themselves have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager. Thus, causing them to judge the teenagers dishonestly as they do not fully understand their point of view. Even though there are some adults that may not have any intention to treat these teenagers badly, there are still many adults that expect teenagers to act in a certain way or dress in a certain
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For instance, throwing tantrums about everything, even small and useless things. However, the society has failed consider the reasons to why teenagers might behave this way. The first reason available is due to the occurrence of rapid growth of synapses or connections in the brain, which start in the early stage of adolescence. Evidence has proved that a part of the teenager’s brain, named the prefrontal cortex, which function is to make decisions on situations and helps control impulses and emotions, is less mature in a teen brain than in an adult brain, therefore, causing teenagers to feel misunderstood, make poor decisions and also act immature. Due to their lack of maturity teenagers are also considered to be “short-sighted because they make poor judgments and risky decisions” (Steinberg, 2009). Adults think that teenagers are often making risky decisions and not thinking about the future but in fact teenagers are just people of the moment. This again proves how irresponsible teens can be, because they make hasty decisions according to society but in fact that’s how teens think and process. Teens tend to make decisions based on how it will affect them in the present not in the past which leaves the adults thinking that they make bad decisions because they do not think about what will happen in the long
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
Hi, I’m Phoebe Ryan and today I am going to be giving a talk that addresses the issues of misinterpreted youth within media and literature using the novel Jasper Jones as word If teenagers’ lives, including all major decisions and events, are constantly portrayed within the media, how can they be judged for the decisions they’re making? Teenagers can easily be influenced to make naive and impulsive decisions whilst under the impression that they are making the correct choices because of being constantly pressured by their peers and the surrounding stereotypes shown within the media. This is reflected in contemporary Australian society where the Australian youth are being represented as naive, impulsive and self-righteous by both literature
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