Cognitive Dissonance
Intergenerational Cultural Dissonance
Everyone remembers fighting with their parents at some point in their life, whether as a young child who wants a toy or as a teenager who isn’t allowed to go out. It’s normal to want to challenge authority when growing up, because it helps young people to make their own decisions and become individuals. Teenagers rely on few close friends and the last people expected to be confidants are their parents.
As a Filipino-American and a child of immigrant parents, the consequences of my rebellion are much more serious than for a child of American-born parents. My parents raised me as if I was growing up in the Philippines. The values and practices they had were completely different from ones of someone born and raised in the United States. Growing up, I never felt comfortable talking to my parents about my problems, because my parents would always say, “I am your parent, not your friend, don’t talk to me like that.” The only times that parents did talk about problems would only be during family parties. My cousins and I often overheard our parents gossiping about us in Tagalog and Ilocano all the time and despite the little Tagalog and Ilocano we understood, once we heard our names, it was like we were fluent speakers. We knew exactly what they were saying about us.
I always felt my parents were against me and thought everything I did was wrong. My parents would constantly put me down for the things I did wrong. I felt awkward whenever I did something right and received praise for it. I always felt like the victim and a lot of my friends felt the same way, too. I bonded with fellow Filipinos at school and we discussed our struggles living with strict parents. I envied pe...
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While most parents realize there are normal struggles between parents and teens as their sons and daughters struggle for independence and identity, they are often shocked by the length and intensity of the conflict. They are stunned by apparent rejection of some of their most sacred values and confused by their teenagers "acting up" and "acting out." In attempting to become psychologically independent of their parents, teens often attempt to move completely away from any control or influence by their parents.
Why do teenagers rebel against their parents? Teenagers rebel against their parents because they lack their parents’ love and they start to build up resentment. (Bucknell) As they are growing up, they are developing their minds and trying to adapt to their surroundings. Despite some negative thoughts about teens, many create their sense of rebellion due to the lack of ideal parents. They begin to think for themselves and go down the wrong path without the right guidance. For instance, without the right guidance the teenager feels that they are the adults in every situation and they know what is right and what is wrong. They begin to develop habits that will later lead to unsuccessful situations. During teenage years, many are going through