One of my college friend suggested me to write about teenagers
because as a school teacher, my friend has noticed that teenagers are very
close to their friends and they show an audacity to their parents. No matter
how much parents are serious about them but teenagers will do what they find
good for them. Why do they like to be independent so much? Why are they more
influenced by their friends than parents?
This issue is very serious because it frames teenagers’
thinking in a way that they feel hesitation with their parents and this how parents
become inessential in their life. We can surely find out the reason behind
teenagers’ this kind of behavior if we precisely notice the way parents have
let their children walk in their own ways. If parents have this kind of
teenagers in their home, they should ask a few questions to themselves. Do they
pray together (with family) daily? Do they have lunch/dinner together? Do they
spend quality time with family? Parents will get answer “No” to these
questions. And that’s why those teenagers spend that time with their friends
and their friends become alternative companions instead of parents. Distance
with someone creates a space for other. This how friends come into life and
they take each position of sibling and relatives in teenagers’ life. As
teenagers are not that much attached to their parents that’s why they share
their all problems and sorrows with their friends and subsequently solutions
and suggestions come from their friends instead
of parents because they were excluded. This emotional sharing and caring
activities keep teenagers even closer to their friends and far from the parents.
I have seen that teenagers who have friendism (issue-we discussing), don’t like
to listen their parents and they try to sort out their problems on their own
ways. Friends are very important part of their life. All friends can’t stay
with us forever. They get apart as life takes everyone in different places
and what stays with you is your family. So,
when friends are not with them, those teenagers become alone completely. At
that time, they can’t immediately get attached to family. They become famililess
people. But we can stop this happening around us. If friendism does exist in someone
then you should acknowledge him to balance his life. Life is always about to
balance everything.
Each family should start to involve their children in daily
praying and dinner then all family members should spend time in chit-chat with
each other. Family and friends should not be prioritized but should be balanced
equally.
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Very Well written
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