The Difficult Teenage Years

The most important problems teenagers face are adapting, the desire to rebel, and responsibilities.

A person's teenage years take them through many stages in life. One becomes a teenager when they turn thirteen and it ends when you turn twenty. Teenage years start in middle school and follow you halfway through your college career. When you are a young teenager, the age of thirteen to about sixteen, the body starts to make a few changes, externally, and internally. Females start at a younger age than males. Female hormones start to develop when they are eleven or twelve, but the thoughts the girls have only start to change when they are teenagers. Girls start to develop curves during their development stage. Of course, the development isn't bad. But when a girl is a teenager, she starts to read magazines that are for the teenage mind. These magazines are filled with girls that do not exist, but teenagers don't know that. When flipping through these magazines, you will see girls with airbrushed and photo shopped faces. They have no curves, no pimples, no birthmarks. For a teenage girl, she is "perfect". These images stick in the girl's mind, she starts to feel terrible about herself, knowing she isn't what she saw in the magazines. Teenagers have to learn to adapt to the changes their bodies are making.

Teenagers have to deal with the adaption process twice, in terms of school. The first time they have to adapt is from middle school to high school. When you are thirteen you are in eighth grade. That's the oldest grade in my elementary school building. When you are younger you look up to the eighth graders, because they are the "cool kids". But the eighth graders are dealing with their own pr...

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...er than they are. But, they don't realize the responsibilities that come with it. Teenagers have this constant battle, they are stuck between being an adult and being a child. They want to be treated like an adult, but still not have the responsibilities like a child. Teenagers are also not sure what responsibilities they have. They still live at home, so their mothers or fathers will cook for them, do their laundry, pay for their meals. But, they still need to find a job to start saving up for the future, do their work so they can get a good job in the future. It's difficult because even though parents, teachers and adults in general treat teenagers as children, they are still expected to have some of the same responsibilities of adults.

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