Article 1 : Parental Pressure

Parental Pressure: Why Do Teenagers and Children Hate It So Much?

Parental Pressure. Sound Familiar? You Betcha!

If I took a poll all around a school about how many students are victims of parental pressure, I can assuredly say that about 60% of the entire school raises their hands up. Why you ask? Well, ‘Me, Myself and I’ is going to talk about this in its very first article.

In this competitive world, many parents always want the best for their children and want them to excel at all fields. But majority of parents force their children to pursue a particular field of career and do not look at the child’s point of view at this case. For example, and this is a real-life story, a student who wishes to pursue commerce is forced to pursue engineering and to get admissions in good colleges, parents apply all the pressure on him to write competitive exams and study and get good marks to do so. But have they even looked or even bothered to ask the children (mainly adults and teenagers) what they want to pursue, what is their dream? No, they have absolutely not! This is the main cause of parental pressure: Competition, Envy and Jealousy over other students. There are teenagers around a world who are capable and smart at the career field they are interested in. I had an old classmate in 10^th in my school who was pretty bad at studies. But once he got his desired stream, commerce, he now gets a good score in all his subjects.

There are particular families where parental pressure mainly occurs. Families that are conservative and orthodox are main areas where parental pressure occurs. Parental Pressure obviously has side effects too. Some of them are Depression, Migraines, Stress, High Blood Pressure, etc. It can lead to suicide also sometimes. No Kidding! There are numerous examples. A Teenager in India hung himself to death because of parental pressure and even career pressure. He could no longer take a path which he did not desire.

All of you might be thinking … What do I know …? Even I am going through this phase. Let me tell you that I am telling you all this by hearing many individual stories and experiences of people.

So, to conclude my article, if I would share a message to teenagers, it would be: Follow your dream, not what others say. If there are obstacles in your path, you got to push through them to earn a successful and a happy life. And mainly you got to know one thing, your career is just a part of your life. It is not Everything. Here is my message to parents: Let your child follow his dream. Your job is to support them throughout their journey.