What are Some of the challenges teenagers face?

Answer 1

As a teen life is confusing. Your not longer a child but your not an adult either. Adults still think they should have some kind of power over you, yet you can't act like a child. How does think make any sense. I'm told to grow, but with the same breath I'm told no?

Your body is going through a million changes and all you can think is god only knows what going to happen next. Your face breaks out, you get hair everywhere, and all of a sudden your always thinking about the opposite sex?

Education is all being drove down your throat with the constant question of "What are going doing after high school?". I mean can't I worry about finishing high school first? Whats the need to ask me that question, I don't know what I'm going to do. That a decision that is going to make or break my life, how am I spouse to come up with an answer.

Your so called friends are stabbing you in the back and with seems to be some kind of order to your social network that you didn't realize existed until now. Your circle friends never mix with other circles. The groups are annoying and if your seen talking to one that's not yours, you become an outcast in your own.

Even thought we all try to act like we don't care what anyone thinks, we do. No one wants to be disliked. We all want all peer to think good things, or we want to portray some kind of imagine. We are terrified of what others think.

The worst is trying to figure who you are and what you really stand for. In a world where your mom tells you one thing and society tells you the other this can be more difficult.

Answer 2

Some of the hardest challenges to resist are, sex, drugs, smoking, alcohol, cutting, getting high, stuff like that.