Are they adults? Or are they kids? What are they supposed to act like? This confusion is not just going on in your head but in many other teenagers who crave for some kind of understanding. Getting blamed for everything just because they're driven out of the expectations of parents, or the so called society. 

“Aren't you grownup?, can't you just learn to be more mature?”

 “I know what's best for you, you're not grown enough to decide for yourself, stop acting like you're so grown”

9 out of 10 teenagers might be hearing the same thing everyday and it's not just some words that flash in a second. It stays and it confuses these teenagers who are still trying to figure out themselves. 

More than often, the older generation find it hard to accept their children have grown, or attained some kind of maturity of their own to understand and decide what is best for them. Instead of guiding them for the decisions they want to take, most of the times it's just criticism or just forcing them to do something the parents think is best. What they don't realise, is they're cutting down the potential of their own children to the limits of their own expectations. Most of the times, parents want their children's lives to be driven through the expectations the society has set for an ideal individual which is not healthy for their children's lives as well as the bond shared between them. At the end of the day, children are forced to go through these pre decided routes in their life.

  Driven by the forced demands or directions given by adults, these teenagers start getting frustrated, this is nothing but their ruined mental health which sure accounts for a huge part of their life. What teenagers in fact need are parents who can guide them through their life, show them both the negative and positive aspects of things and let the final choice in their own hands. Moreover, these teenagers are people who want to decorate their life with their own dreams that  they want to achieve. If parents don't support them for the dreams they built, where else do these teenagers go to? 

What parents are supposed to understand is, sometimes even though you wish to bring best for your kids, your children's perspective of best might not be yours. Afterall, it's their life and they're a whole another individual. Set fire to their wings, let them fly and settle wherever they want, just provide your support and guidance, make them understand if something is wrong. Just be there for them so that they know whenever they need a shoulder, parents are home!