4. The problem of teenagers.

Human beings go through several different but important periods during their lives, and the teenage time following the childhood and preparing a young person to the adulthood is one of the most vital. Lots of changes occur at the teenage time, people alter physically and psychologically, they try reaching to the adult world and don't want to be treated like children anymore, that's the dangerous time of struggle and denial when many young people are at the risk of taking the wrong path in their life.

So there are a lot of problems of the teenage age which have to be dealt with by the parents, the relatives, the teachers and by the teenagers themselves, of course. From my point of view there are 2 important problems concerning the teenagers. The first one is their searching of themselves and their own way what results in denial of other people's advice and experience, attempts to help and direct to some course. And as a rule this happens not because the advice and help themselves are bad and wrong but because the teenagers simply don't want to do what they are told to do, no matter how good or bad that is - that's just an act of independence from their point of view.

Another problem is that the teenagers are mostly trying to be like adults, but like adults from their own point of view. For many of those still children being an adult doesn't mean being responsible or in charge of their words and actions or earning money - they suppose that being an adult simply means doing the things you are prohibited to do, like smoking or drinking alcohol, for example. I suppose those are the main difficulties of the teenage age but they seem to be possible to deal with providing that the adults responsible for those children really care and want to help.

And if we are talking about the less difficult and more responsible teenagers who are simply living their lives with no attempts of proving their rebelliousness here we may think about the activities they go in for. I think that with no dependence from the country the teenagers live in they may go in for various kinds of activities: sports, music, art, cooking, developing the skills they are good at. Anything that helps a person to develop some way, at least, will do.

And turning at last to the problem of communication between the adults and the teenagers, I wouldn't say that there are any strict rules or principles here. All the people are different, it doesn't matter whether they are adults or children, so the abilities of one person to understand another depends mainly on his/her character and not on the age. Some teenagers may behave more like adults and some adults be worse than any child would be.