Peer group pressure
In our societies today, our teenagers and adolescents are been moved by what they see, watch or ear, they want to try new things, they want to explore and do what their peers are doing that's why we must be careful and teach them the basic things of life so that they won't be misled.
Growing up as a girl, alot of pressure was around me. Going to school meeting new friends and trying to mingle so that they won't call me "omo get inside", sometime when the girls caucus are talking, I do listen with keen interest because I will be wondering if all they are saying is true and if my opinion is asked I used to rugged my answer and back it up with "it's a normal thing jare" they will think I understood all they were saying.
Coming from a family were we weren't allowed to go outside, been locked in the compound 247 except we go to school or church, I don't know what happen in the outside world. Anytime I have the opportunity to go out haaaaaaaaaa you will think I was been released from the prison that how happy I am anyday I have such opportunity. During my secondary school days, my friends were somehow the big girls in class so am like the novice in the group, i dont talk much, I don't play much so other classmates thinks am the quiet time but deep down inside of me, am not quiet ooooo I just don't understand the circumstances around me at that time. They talk about their boyfriends, how they got money, the new stuff they bought and lots of other exciting stuffs, I will now be wondering why am different and the family am coming from haaaaaaaaa you dare not bring new stuffs into the house. If it's not dad or mom that got it for you, u dare not buy anything because they don't give me money so you will now explain where you get the money from.
But growing up into a young adult, I realised that all my parents did was for my own good if they haven't done that maybe I wouldn't have been who I am today, I would have joined the bad wagon and be misled. Outside world is full of temptations and pressure that's why you see seventeen(17) years old boy who wants to become a millionaire, a teenager going into rituals just because he/she saw something like that on the internet, those young lads are not patient atall, it takes the grace of God to bring up a well trained and responsible wards in this present generation. They are exposed to what they don't need at their age and they have such curious minds, they want to try new things, they want to explore their world, the pressure to feel among is in their mind, they want to show their friends they are big boys and girls too not knowing that that's not the real definition of a big boy or girl. During my growing days my parents restricted me from using mobile phone, till i finished my secondary school I wasn't given a personal phone that continues until I clock 20 years, it was then I was given a phone I could call mine. But this generation, they see that as punishment you can imagine a 10 years boy wants a phone that worth 100k all because his friend has such phone.
In conclusion
Let's train up our children to know what is right, to be independent so that they won't be swayed into bad acts because they want to belong, the world is advancing so also our knowledge let's try to sit down and find a better way to survive than joining the crowd and making a decision you will live to regret.
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