Pushing Teens Too Hard

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Achievements, success, pride, and confidence. These words are things that someone wants to have, but if they are being pushed too far, when will it end? In the article “Parents: Pushing Teens Too Hard,” the author states that “researchers found that the rate of depression doubled in that time, while the number of suicidal students tripled” (Davis). Parents do not understand that when children are being pushed too hard, they will have a rough life and may make wrong decisions. Adults are pressuring their kids to achieve which is not healthy for them and it will have long-term effects on them and their habits in the future because of the pressure. Straightaway, not only are the children suffering from being pushed by their parents, but the adults are having a hard time as well. Because they have to provide for …show more content…

The pressure is getting to the children and because they are being put into all these academic programs by their parents, they are tending to take less time on their assignments resulting in a bad grade because of all the assignments they have to finish. “When parents pushed their kids to achieve, they did rise to meet the expectations. But when parents tried to nudge kids past their realistic potential, the effort backfired, and the students actually did worse” (Holloway). This means that when one is being pushed and put into more academic programs, they are focusing on more than one thing at a time, meaning that they have to multitask and that may not be really efficient when dealing with school and doing completely different subjects at the same time. This matters because when parents are pushing their kids academically, it may backfire by having the kids do worse in their common core subjects because they are being pushed higher than their limits. When kids are above what they can do they do worse, but their parents just keep on pushing

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