Why is it so hard to raise a teenager?

i am not a mother yet. but looking back on my teen years, i was a little hardheaded, too. i go out late at night just to be with friends. but that's just it. i always come home and never forget to prioritize school, too. my grades were still up and i finished school and even passed my licensure exam. my parents were so proud of me. however, i still feel bad since i made my parents worry back then for me.

Teenagers can be challenging to raise because of a number of reasons. Probably the main reason is that their pre-frontal cortex is not fully fused until they are into their 20's. This is the center of the brain responsible for higher cognitive functions such as behavior control. Other reasons why kids do what they do is to test their limits and to find themselves.

It's hard to raise teenagers for the same reason it is hard being one. Teenage years are the first time a person has to make decisions for themselves. They have to make these decisions with little to now experience. Everything seems new to them, so it's hard to listen to advice from those older than they are. Since it's new to them, how can older people know what they are going through?

i think the only thing that a teenager wants is time, love, consideration?

I didn't have nearly as much trouble raising my two boys as teenagers that I am having with my daughter. She is 16 and sometimes she wants to be treated like an adult and sometimes she doesn't. I think when she gets overloaded is when she wants to be treated like a little girl. She is so active in school, sometimes she doesn't even have enough time to grab something to eat. She puts more pressure on herself than I do. Compared her to my boys, they were easy to raise as teenagers.

I was a fairly rotten teenager. I thought my parents were old and didn't know anything. I think teens struggle with the 'trying to be an adult but they aren't' feeling. They think they know everything, even when they don't. Just keep up with the loving guidance. They will make mistakes. Mine were so rebellious at times I had to let them have the logical consequence of being locked up in juvenile detention. I don't know how it is in the Phillipines, but I wanted my boys to realize they hated jail before they had to deal with adult prison. So far, it seems to have worked.

I think if all of us would no that answer we all would be stress free. If you ever fine out the answer please let me no.

Life of a teenager is just like apaper of just as a flower as i think so because the children at this age are very sensitive at hearts and they easily believe whatever they listen others and they are easily attracted to the bad world as the never find difficulties in practising them and even the want to take their own decisions and they hardly like to listen to our advise that's whyu it is hard to mould them at teenages,what i think.

The point here is that, a teenage is always thinking that he's grown up kid, so the zeal to become adult is making them sometimes to feel they are big enough to take care of themselves.

I have a teenage girl too, and I know they have something about in there minds that somehow they can't really explain to us mothers. They are all seeking for something that for them is the beggining of their real life like making decisions, suffering from problems that they can't share with us. And thats the problem with us sometimes we can't even understand them why they act like that. Sometimes we really want what is really matter with them, and try to control them but they think that thier have there own minds and don't want to control.

I think first of all it is all out generation gap. What elders thinks or takes any particular situation is completly different from what teenagers thinks at their age. They are new in learning things which is already been experienced by elders. So I think till every teenager didn't experience things of their own they always whats to make their point.

I am neither a parent or a teenager but i find the subject very interesting. I think that parents and teenagers are not meant to get on, i think that it is natures way of seperating them a little in preperation for the teens leaving the nest so to speak. Teenagers rebel and break away so that it is (supposedly) less heartbreaking when they leave home. Also i think it is to do with the changes they experience, their brains are not yet fully developed in the same way that their bodies are still forming, they rebel because they are confused, they are beggining to look like adults and feel they ought to be independant like adults. However they do not have the ability to sort things out logically in their own minds. In the same way parents have been there but as they have developed they aqcuire what they know as logic and lose the ability to relate to irrational thoughts and actions and so tthere is an inevitable clash.Basically teens don't have enough logic and parents have too much.

hi with every new generation, raising of a teenager will be all the more difficult, as that age is of adolescence and difficult to convince with logic. its better to handle them with love

When my parents made my mad i tried little things to irritate them that they could never prove i did.

Because that's the stage of our life that we need answer for some of our questions? And that's stage of experimenting.

I am a teenager now, and I understand why we did it (yes, I admit it!). Some say it is because of our transition from childhood to adulthood wherein we became more aware of our surroundings that make us uneasy and feel differently. Media is another cause. We are now more exposed to the internet, tv and other stuff that makes our mind crazy, we will think that this one is right then that one is wrong but my favorite actress says otherwise so I'll think that the wrong is right, etc. I hope I helped! ^_____^