Why being a teenager is tough..

You may think that being a Teenager is easy. But adults, trust me when I say this statement: It is not! Try looking back into your memories and compile up of a list of reasons why your teenage years were difficult or seemed to be at least. Take those reasons and think about them and really concentrate. Some of the reasons I think being a teenager is hard are:

• We go through puberty, and yes it does affect us in many ways.
• Relationships. Oh how they play a BIG role in our status throughout our Middle and High School years. 
• Break-Ups: These, are the reason why our behavior changes, besides our Hormones.
• HORMONES. We can't control them correctly as our body should.
• Learning how to drive! 
• Trying to pass a grade and graduate High School.
• Thinking about what we want to do as we grow older.

You, as an Adult, may come to terms that: "Being a teenager isn't as hard as it seems." Yeah, you go ahead and say that. I'm pretty sure and being an Adult is harder, but we're just kids still! You're older and more mature than we are!

Sure, you guys have to pay taxes and find a job, pay rent and find someone to love. But it isn't as hard as YOU may think it is to be an Adult. We have reasons why we WANT to become an adult earlier than you think we do. Maybe it's because we want to learn how to live on our own, raise a family and find out what it is and was like for our parents to raise us!

You already know what puberty is, so I will skip this topic. 

RELATIONSHIPS: We have MANY over the course of the five years as a teenager! These can affect us in ways we will never understand. They play a major role in how your Middle and High School life will play, because most of the time, not having a boyfriend or girlfriend can cause bullying, as in YOU GET TEASED AND BEATEN UP. Most other teens who HAVE someone to love, feel sorry for the ones that don't, because someone isn't interested in them. Adults will never know how it feels to be an outcast or a loner because no one is there to hug or kiss you.

BREAK-UPS: We ALSO have many! As we all know, including adults, that relationships don't work out all the time. You could have someone steal someone away from you, or someone who doesn't like as much as they used to and likes someone else, or someone who could just be fooling you! We all know what it feels like to be broken up with, because I can assure you that everyone has been broken up with.

HORMONES: You know, the things that control how we feel, react and act? Humans have many hormone changes over the span of their life, but the most changes happen from ages 13-18, because we become a teenager at 13 and and adult at 18. The hormones start changing when you're 13 and you start to notice guys and girls more than you did as a kid. You may have body changes, such as growing hair on your face and or growing a few inches taller. As you turn 18, these hormones slow down, they never stop. Once they slow down, you come to a point at which you probably stay the same height, and your voice will stop changing. These things occur naturally, but it mostly happens in teens.

LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE: It's not as easy as it sounds. Some may think: "All you do is press the petal and turn corners." That's not at ALL what driving is. Do you know that most car accidents are from people under the age of 20, mostly under the age of 18? Yes, these are teenagers. Driving is dangerous sometimes, you may have black ice on the road one day, or someone may pull out or run a stop light without you noticing. Teens have a hard time dealing with driving because you have to watch MANY things ALL at the same time. You have to notice who and what is around you, when the light is green or red, which lane to go on, and where to stop. We already have enough to remember, this just adds to it.

We all know how it feels like to try and pass High School and figure out what we want to do in life, so I'm skipping these parts. 

But otherwise, before /trying/ to console your daughter/son about something that happened, think: "Will what I say just hurt them even more, or make matters worse?"

And no, I am not an adult, I AM a teenager myself. What Adult would write about being a teenager when they're an adult now? There's no sense to it.

Oh and this blog will be the longest, until I can be more creative...But this will probably be the longest. Sorry if it's so long, I just wanted to get my thoughts across!

-Heather