Teenagers Deviant

I believe all these aspects of concern that parents and society find for adolescents is defined by a common theme of not wanting teenagers to become deviant. Society and parents concern and apprehension for teenagers are justified by saying that they just want them to do well and go down a specific path. However, it chooses what they want for them most of the time and pressures them into conforming to the societal norms. All throughout my life, starting from kindergarten up until now, I have been taught ways to succeed and follow a certain pathway to get there. I have been taught certain skills, how to act, and what is defined as good or deviant. This became more emphasized in adolescence through my parents, school, media, family, essentially

When I look back at these small changes that I would not have noticed otherwise and what we learn in lecture, I see the concern my school and parents had with teenagers and the changes after the transition from preteen to a teenager. I was so excited for that change because I wanted to be older, however, when I got older I was thrown all these expectations that I felt pressured to conform to. It seems to me that these expectations and pressures get thrown at all teenagers to get them to follow a certain pathway and only that. Wandering away from that pathway was seen as wrong but now I look back and wonder why it was seen as wrong. Why is society so scared of change? Why is the idea of teenagers making their own decisions based on their knowledge so terrifying? Dr. Penner stated that society is trying to turn adolescents into productive members of society but want them to think it is their own idea. This fundamentally describes the definitions our culture holds of parental love as well, as they gently push adolescents in the direction of becoming productive members with the help of social