The summer was over and it’s the beginning of Jason eleventh grade semester. Starting the eleventh grade with a GPA standing at a 1.8 Jason next two years of school were very important to his life. The ACT’S were coming up in the fall and college applications were piling up in the hard drive of Jason’s computer. Not really thinking about grades and college before the eleventh grade Jason has finally sat down and thought about these things and his life after high school. Jason has come to conclude that he needs to go to college and earn a degree but he realizes this is not as easy as it sounds. With a low GPA and bad test taking skills Jason is faced with one of many important experiences and decisions in his teenage life. Jason signs up for his classes and gets to work his last two years high school were his best year’s academic wise. Jason ended his twetth grade year with a 2.6 GPA and a 14 on his ACT score after taking it twice. Jason applied to many college universitities and were accepted to a couple. He decide to go to a major university close to home after getting accepted threw a program for students who didn’t meet the general education requirements to be regularly admitted. These students are basically given a second chance to be admitted to the university even though they have low ACT Scores and GPAs which Jason did. After starting the elenth grade and realizing it was time to do something with him self Jason was hit with many important life decions in his teenage life. Just like him many teenagers are face with the same important decions. Questions like what college are you going to what is your act score are you graduating are just some of many teenagers are face to deal with. These can be very stressful on a teenager but are very important to their life. This situation is experience by every body in there teenage life. People are faced with a decision to finally step out on their own and become an adult. During the teenage years there are many experiences that test the teenager responsibility and decision making skills as their growing up. Most people call the teenager years the adolescence of life meaning the transstion stage of meantal and human development. I believe that teenage life is a premature pretest of adult hood.
In the 1900s most people did not acknoloedge there was a such thing as adoclcence until the an American physcoligis and educator stanely hall created the theory. Adolcens development are between the ages of 14 and 24. in Jeffery jesnese artlce he quotes stanely hall stating that He stated that “storm and stress a universal and inevitable part of adolescent development. Also stated by Jeffery Jensen in his article G. STANLEY HALL’S ADOLESCENCE: Brilliance and Nonsense he says the stanely insures that when all young people go through some degree of emotional and behavioral upheaval before establishing a more stable equilibrium in adulthood. I believe that teenage life is adolocences delvopment. During this time a teenager years the teenager is seeing and experience new things in life and their brain is still fresh as stated by an Nthabiseng18 year-old female high school in he artcle teeen life is like a sponge and soaks up everything that comes to it.
Being a teenage can be a very stressful time in life. Most teenager I put to the test with making decions as they go through stiutaons. There are countels number of topics teens ecpenersce in there life. Some are drugs, alochole, pregnancy, peer preusser and relationships. Trying to balnce all these things at once can take a tole on a teanger life. First drugs and achol is a big influene in a teenagers life. Some teenagers use drugs and alcohol becaue they think its cool and it gives them a good feeling. This can put a teenager at risk of multiple things. Under age drinking and doing drugs can be harmfull to the teenagers life. Some teenagers get addicted at and early age and become immued to the alchol and drugs this sets up a bad effect in the adulthood years by starting off early. Second relationships can be just as life threnting as drugs and alchole. As a teenager your hormones are ragaing and you are arttected the the other gender teengers tend to get into relationships with other people. These reationgs can cause sreess and emontanl withdraw. Teenagers might feel they need to be with some one else in order to be happy. As a result of being with some one this can bring on teean preagnacy and marrrige. Both of these ar becoming real commom in teenage life. Also realionship with faimil and friends can be demanind as well some teenager go through diovres with there parents and this can be stressfull on the teen. This can effect ther grades and personal life. The relationships teenager have with there friends can be overwhelming friends can put the friends under peer presrure to thedothings. These things acan be drugs achole stealing or andy litltle old things. Some teenagers think they might half to do these things to fit in or look cool atratting attention. I know hands on how it feels to deal with each of these things personally. Ive been under lots of peer preurrse negative and positive both can be ver strees full. Also going through high school balancing my grades and sports were not easy, and last but not least drugs and achole was always around. The people I hang out with everyday were everyday users and always wanted me to join them. All these things tested my aillity to make my own decisions and experience things that would change my life. As I sit back and look at some of the things a went through and currently still experiencing I believe that teenage life is a premature prest of adult hood.
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