Reasons why some Teenagers choose Friends over Family

There are lots of teenagers experiencing stress and pressure in life, maybe in school nor home, every teenagers feel this problem. There are reasons why teenagers turn away their feeling to their parents or relatives, some teenagers choose their friends since friends can understand their situation and they felt happy if they get along with friends, the feel happiness though it has limited time.

1. Pressure from Parents

Many teenagers is experiencing this problem, since parents are optimistic that their son needs to get a high grade or good reputation to school thats why they are pressuring their sons or daughter to study hard. Sometimes they are deciding the course of their son or daughter even though its not the course that their son or daughter wants, but due to family business they need to study the course that they don't want for the sake of continuation of business. Many teenagers is not happy to this, it is usually happening to rich teenagers, thats why we must proud as an average person that we can choose the course we love and we want.

2. Comparison to others

Have you encounter this one? I know all teenagers experience this one and it is hard for us to accept that we are being compared to others even though we give our best but our best is not enough for them, for example in our siblings, our parents are comparing us and tells look at your cousin she's top 1 in their class and you just got top 5?. This type of comparison hurts as a lot since our parents is not being proud to what we accomplish, this is also the reason why our feelings to our parents turned away, we talk to our friends and they are the person that comfort us.

3.Family Problems

Have you experience that when there is a problem at home, your the person that always blame by your parents, like everytime there's a lost thing you are already the suspect and asking you different things. This is the worst thing that can happen inside a home, eventhough you do everything to gain their trust but in the end they are still seeing you worthless. This is the reason why teenagers rebelling their parents, choosing friends over family since they are worthy when they are with friends.

Its not bad to choose friends if your experiencing problems, since they are comforting you but you must remember that choose friends that can help you not friends that will lead you to bad habits. Choose those friends that can guide you and cry together with you, In the end no matter how we turn away to our home, we still return to it since we cannot avoid the truth that our family is our shield in times of danger and the people we can live until we die.

~rasmiah