Teenager 

is a young person aged between 13 and 19 years old. A teenager is a

transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and
adolescence. This transition involves biological changes, pubertal, social, and psychological
changes.

As teenagers, they are studying in secondary school. Their life is paid by parents. So,
their do not have to worry about our money and other things. They are free and all we have to
think is about ourselves and our studies. Teenagers today tend to lead a modern lifestyle as
compared to the teenagers in the past.

Teenagers today are exposed to the technology. For teens in today world mobile phones,
internet, music, movies, television and video games are very important. Most teenagers prefer
watching TV and playing computer games to reading books. They do not like reading because
watching TV is easier and they do not have to use their own imagination. Computer games also
harmful to health. Teenagers prefer to spend free time in front of a computer rather than to walk,
play football or go to a swimming pool. Moreover, games transfer them into the world which
does not exist. It is very exciting for the youth.

Most of them have their own computer. They can surf internet in home. They love to surf
social website like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and other. They also have their own email
address. Those staffs can connect them throughout the world and they are easily to make new
friends. They are connected all the time will each others through the websites and email. They
can get many new knowledge and experiences from their friends, share ideas and solutions and
learn about the many diverse cultures out there. Teenagers can improve their language because
they have to use English as their main language to chat with each other.

However this internet like any other technology is also like a Pandora’s Box and
contains some unwanted elements or disadvantages. Teenagers also exposed to the
inappropriate contents like sexual, malicious, racist and violent contents. Relationships on
the web are very common. Relationships are created with people who are wicked and evil
hearted In many cases, relationships of this kind move from the virtual to the real world and
could result in undesirable consequences, even extortion or sexual abuse. While surfing the
Internet, teenagers make friends and meet new people, and sometimes they are tempted to
meet them outside the virtual space. Meetings of this kind could endanger them. Some of the
internet users use chats, forums and instant messaging software to gain their trust and to
arrange a face-to-face meeting for sexual purposes.

Fast food is main choice for teenagers’ meals. Fast food includes fish and chips,
sandwiches, hamburgers, friend chicken, French fries, nuggets, pizza and more. McDonalds,
KFC, Pizza Huts, and other fast food restaurant are very common in every place. Teenagers like
having theirs meals in these restaurants. It is faster, cheaper, and more choices. However, fast
food is very unhealthy to teens. Fast food is especially high in fat content, and studies have
found associations between fast food intake and increased body mass index (BMI) and weight
gain. Besides the dangers of fats,high calories,and low fiber,there is another health risk:
unbalance nutrient intake.

“Leave me alone!” and “You don’t understand me!” are the common words that made by
many teenagers today to adults and parents. Teenagers are in adolescence which can cause
conflict themselves and their parents. Arguing in a family like quarrel between parents will cause
teenagers feel tension to stay in the house. Most of the parents are materialistic that they believe
money and luxury life will give their children a better life. Both of them will work all the time.
So they are no time to be with their children. They give everything what their children want.
Meanwhile, they do not understand the children’s felling. Some parents will give their
responsibility to ‘kakak’ or maid. Sometime, the maids are come from different country. It is
difficult that the teens share their problem, felling and tension. So, they prefer to hang out with
friends.

Teenagers will follow their friends’ life trends like staying out at nights, no interest in
studies and fantasying unrealistic ambitions. Many teens rather spend most of their time with
friends at night and ignoring parents' order. Mostly on weekends, they gather around food stalls
to talk about the events which had happened over the week. After spending the whole night
hanging outside, they will return home then, while their parents are waiting for them. The next
day, they sleep till noon and their daily routines will be interrupted. Besides, teenagers do not
have interest in studies. What they desire is just enjoyment, which is being with their friends,
loitering around shopping complexes. Teenagers can be easily influenced by bad companions
which might teach these innocents to smoke, fight and with great possibility, they will lead them
to take drug. This condition cause teenagers would pay less attention on their studies as it is a
waste of time, they thought. The trend of fantasying unrealistic ambition of being celebrities or
influential figures is popular among teenagers. There is not doubt that the existence of
multimedia plays a part in encouraging teens to set foot into the entertainment world. Television
contests open doors to discover the hidden potential of the youngsters. The actual purpose and
intention was good, but when teenagers neglect their studies to focus on the competition, it turns
out to be bad.

These modern trends bring a lot problem to the teenagers themselves, society and
country. Parents should pay more attention on their children compared to career. With proper
guidance, teenagers are able to discover their abilities which are relevant to the realistic world.
Teens is the country's future and hope, they should shoulder the heavy responsibility of building
the motherland. Therefore, family, schools and society need to care about teenagers’ mental
health, for them to have a better stage of pubertal development.