Have you ever, as a teen been taunted, made to feel intimidated or faced condescension by your elders? These are some inevitable factoids that a teen has to face after they hit puberty till the day they become (and let me quote) “successful” but are they really able to understand what significance does the word holds at this age because we all know success holds different meanings to different people and the freedom of choice that is the sheer soul of teenage, is hereby murdered.

This is the age of immense vulnerability, where a teen has a lot on their plate to handle already, all that pressure from parents to meet the social standard of acceptance just makes things worse and they forget that out back in the world their children have a social standard of their own to meet, it makes them more rebellious when they see that the people who are supposed to understand them and support them are coming between their dreams and passions.

All of our parents and the elderly have sifted through this phase, then the question pops up (as a teen might put it) -”What’s all the fuss about? ” . The answer may be lying in the interrogative part itself, they have gone through it and so they clearly know what kind of evil may be secretly lurking when we choose a certain path for ourselves but as the times have changed , so the conventional methods of making them understand also demands a considerable improvement.
Parents must try understanding that the naïve mind of their credulous child is already going through a lot and provoking them contemptuously would only add to the state of agitation they are already in. You will have to let them run their course and find the right path by not providing them with assistance always, where “you” think it is necessary.