The Pressures on Today's Teenagers

The Pressures on Today's Teenagers

Today's teenagers are unruly and lack concentration. Their lack of

concentration is a result of the plethora of distractions in society.

Teenagers should be taught discipline and mobile phones, computer

games etc should be banned from the age or 14 to 16. This would enable

all teenagers to fulfil their potential at GCSE level.

In today's society there are many pressures in the lives of teenagers.

The tornado of school crashes through their lives causing destruction

and chaos. This destruction causes so many demands and deadlines, that

teenagers find it hard to cope. From this they turn to easier, less

demanding options. These options come in the form of distractions,

which range from material goods to unruly behaviour. They prefer to

focus on places of relaxation than the turmoil of school. The answer

to this problem in not to push these teenagers to different

distractions, but to pull them back to education. The banning of

commercial distractions would not make a substantial difference. If

anything it would prove to be counter affective, as teenagers would

turn to more extreme distractions from the pressure. We need to help

to level out the lives of teenagers, instead of weighing them down

with a whirlwind of stress and strain.

In the twenty-first century teenagers find it hard to keep their lives

in balance. On one side of the scales is their social lives, and on

the other, the unappealing load from school life. For many this side

of the scales is leaning off balance. In it contains constant floods

of coursework, storms of exam revision, and volcanoes filled with hot

air and pressure. These...

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...ols need to relieve them from this

pressure, relieve them from the storm of work, which brews above them,

and relieve them from the frightening prospects of the future. They

may not be confident in this area, but schools do manage to promote

self-confidence and expression of opinion so that if there were a ban,

teenagers would not stand down. Teenagers need to be listened to.

Teenagers need to be consulted. Teenagers need to be helped, and by

doing that we help our selves. Adults, you were once teenagers, and

you made your futures. You need to help teenagers of today to make

theirs. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990) said, "Education is to replace

an empty mind with an open one." We need to replace the mind of

teenagers, not with pressure and hardship, but with an open mind,

which is determined, and has the want to succeed.