Why teenagers are oftenly misunderstood?

yes parents do have that problem with not wanting to admit they don't have as much control over their child. also its not always the teenagers fault with the way they act as the brain hasn't fully developed until your in your mid 20s.

Parents can guide the teenagers on the right path but as humans we all have free will. If parents are to strict on their children then that will just cause the teen to sneak around and rebel against them. If a parent is to lenient then the teen will just do whatever they want without a care. Its really all in the hands of the teenager in deciding if they want to learn the easy way or the hard way. Life lessons will catch up to them eventually though.

tenager from my time seem to be more street smart than teangr now.teengr now seem to not to want to interact with others like they use to.now all teens seem to want play video games and sit around inside the house and let the world go by.there missing out on so much living that it makes them seem losy and misunderstand

Teenagers should share there feelings and thoughts with there parents. Even the way they address or say to the parents should be soft mean give respect while talking to them not that just shouting at them saying you cant understand. If the teenagers behave properly and make them understand they too may wont get any negative thoughts or use words as u said and even parents should understand the feelings of teenagers as they too have come from that stage only they too have seen there teenagers should understand the feelings of them. If we only get so much anger growing elder why not the teenagers our children get we should feel and sometimes even we too should adjust. The only way is should think of there teenage life how they used to feel and if any they have missed allowing there children to enjoy but within limits and even children so far called teenagers should understand this and follow there parents.....

Blame it on the raging hormones, everybody passes this stage so why wonder? but I guess parents will always be parents and teenagers will always be teenagers and the cycle just continues. Cheers!

I have been involved in children's and youth ministry for many years, and have conducted many study groups, fun times and camps with teenagers.

I would have to say that my heart goes out to teens because I believe they are the most vulnerable people in the world. Teens are no longer children, but they are not yet adults. They really are living in a continually changing situation. They are changing in every sense. More change takes place in these years than in any other years of life. Teens are changing physically, emotionally, mentally, socially. They are being forced to make decisions: decisions which they are not really ready or equipped to make.

The biggest problem for most teens is their self image. Most teens suffer from low self-esteem, which is often shown as the opposite - boastful, loud, outgoing, arrogant, defiant.

Teens don't like to be told this, but the fact is that maturity does NOT happen in teenage years. Medically it is agreed that teens actually start maturing closer to about 20 years old, but this varies considerably according to their upbringing and experiences.

From my observations of hundreds of teens over the years, I would have to say that those who had the most disciplined lives and happy, confident relationships with their parents, coped best, and became well-adjusted, happy adults. Let me stress, that I am talking here of positive discipline, NOT dictatorship.

Why are teenagers often misunderstood? All of the above.

i'm currently 19 now and i turn 20 this november, i'm almost going to cross my teen age...
i have been given a 80% freedom by my parents, they restrict me only in some things, they will not allow me to talk with any new girls or some thing, unless they know about that girl ..
other things i'm completely free...

happy mylotting

In the bible state that the attitude of the children in our society is to become worse it's the sign of last day's not for the attitude and also for the economy.

teenagers think differently than adults do. Teens like me always think that the things we experience now are once in a lifetime and they will never happen again so we try to make everyday count and make the most of the moment while most adults want us to stop "this nonsense because there is time for everything". We think differently that the most simplest way to put it. Adults forgot fun and we're just getting started. We are really misunderstood.

I think it is because most people usually think that teenagers are not mature enough to know if what they say and do is good. And i think most people think that teenagers are really not mature enough to decide and responsible enough for the decisions they make. I think it would also be nice to give teenagers some space for them to grow and to know how to make their own decisions because it is not always that we would have our parents with us to make every decisions in our life. There would really come a day where we would really be needing to make our own decisions by our self and not depend on the decisions of our parents.