Nowadays, teenagers face many problems on a daily life especially during the their most awkward growth stages. During this time, teens are exposed to some overwhelming external and internal problems. Teens go through, and they are expected to cope with hormonal changes, puberty, social and parental forces, work and school pressures, as well as encountering many conditions and problems. They feel overwhelmed when faced with stresses concerning about school and college,trouble of friends and also career confusion situations. Those who have absentee parents are exposed to more unfavorable states of life.
The issues that teenagers face today vary but its still can be handled if parents or guardians can understand the symptoms of their problems. Parents should approach their children. Many teens feel misunderstood. It is vital for parents to understand them. When the teens face self-esteem and body image problems, they can become frustrated, and affected in eating disorders. Usually, they start to feeling stress when they are exposed to peer-pressure such as competition at school, or child abuse at home. In this condition, they could not think positively even to make the decision and some may be will quarelling. Many teens resort to crimes once they feel they cannot get any help or support. Thus, they may run away from home, play computer games, and start chatting online with strangers. Their study will be ignored and become brutal. An addition, play computer games and online chatting can result in addiction.
The issues that teenagers face today vary but its still can be handled if parents or guardians can understand the symptoms of their problems. Parents should approach their children. Many teens feel misunderstood. It is vital for parents to understand them. When the teens face self-esteem and body image problems, they can become frustrated, and affected in eating disorders. Usually, they start to feeling stress when they are exposed to peer-pressure such as competition at school, or child abuse at home. In this condition, they could not think positively even to make the decision and some may be will quarelling. Many teens resort to crimes once they feel they cannot get any help or support. Thus, they may run away from home, play computer games, and start chatting online with strangers. Their study will be ignored and become brutal. An addition, play computer games and online chatting can result in addiction.
Self-Esteem and Body Image
Body image is really important especially for women. Hormonal changes could effects on the growth and mood of the teens. When they do not like something in themselves, they have self-esteem and body image problems. Some teenagers feel too fat, too skinny, too tall and too short. This feeling leads them to spend time wishing they were not too skinny, too short, their hair was not too curly or vice versa.
The problem with this feeling, its affects their self-image. Its make teenagers to compare themselves with people around them and when they find they do not match their standards, they feel low. They also compare themselves with those seen on TV, in movies, and in the magazines. To develop their positive self-esteem, it is affected by family life and parental criticism. Teenagers who get negative comments about their image appearances and the way they talk also resulting on poor self-esteem.
The problem with this feeling, its affects their self-image. Its make teenagers to compare themselves with people around them and when they find they do not match their standards, they feel low. They also compare themselves with those seen on TV, in movies, and in the magazines. To develop their positive self-esteem, it is affected by family life and parental criticism. Teenagers who get negative comments about their image appearances and the way they talk also resulting on poor self-esteem.
Depression
Depression also one of the worst problems that some teenagers suffer from and it can lead to more problems in the future. Especially as a student, depression may arise from poor self-esteem and work stress.
The way to overcome depression is parents should talk to the teens, listen to their child, comfort them and accept their child for who they are. It is important that teens feel validated in their feelings and thoughts because what they are going through is a real part of their lives. Parents and guardians should not judge or criticise their feelings or thoughts. They should tell their child how important it is to have high self-esteem and be comfortable in their body.
The way to overcome depression is parents should talk to the teens, listen to their child, comfort them and accept their child for who they are. It is important that teens feel validated in their feelings and thoughts because what they are going through is a real part of their lives. Parents and guardians should not judge or criticise their feelings or thoughts. They should tell their child how important it is to have high self-esteem and be comfortable in their body.
There have more depression symptoms. Changes in sleep patterns, eating habits, declined interest in normal and healthy activities, dropping grades in school and college, and preferred isolation are all signs of depression. If teenagers begin talking about their depression, they should be allowed to express their feelings, and parents should understand their feelings by listening to them without interrupting the conversation. It is the way to make them feel comfortable with parents and not searching other person or friends to shared. Mostly, teenagers will shared their problems with friends because they feel that parents does not validated with their feelings and thought. Usually, parents will scold them, not accepted them for who they are then it will lead them to more social problems outside.
Cyber Addiction
As we know, the Internet offers benefits in developing a teen's ability to grow up with modern technology, technical ideas, knowledge and other skills. However, using the internet, particularly the social networking websites, unsafely puts the teenagers at very high risk for many problems. When children spend more than enough they tend to be cyber addicts. As they spend more time on social networking, gaming,chatting, youtube and other websites, they suffer from cyber addiction. When someone was addicted to internet, they will ignored their lifestyle and have no mission and planning for their work. They just focusing on the internet, buzy on new application to downloads thus will lead them on their thought.
Cyber addiction can be just as harmful as addiction to drugs or drinking alcohol. Teenagers who spend unhealthy amounts of time on the Internet or online suffer from a condition recognized as Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD). The impact for those who have IAD conditions, they may experience distress, obsessive thoughts, tremors, and other mental and physical problems. Cyber addiction impairs the quality of their lives. Thus, the way to avoid this problems, parents should talk to their children and agree on a list of rules that clearly say when to use the internet, which sites they should visit and what safety measures they should follow. Teachers can also ensure safe browsing of the web at schools and colleges for teenage students.
