Conection

How is social status connected to my personal, familiar, and academic life?
=Social status is connected to my personal, family and academic life because:=

INTERVIEW TO DR VICTORIA EUGENIA ACEVEDO ( PHD IN PHSYCHOLOGY):
According to the phsychologist being popular can cause many conflicts with your academic and familiar life. From her experience she has dealed with a great amount of young people whose academic life has been neggatively affected by the social status. In many cases, these young people have even failed years or faced school expulsion just to keep their social status intact. Related to the familiar life, she knows of many disfunctional families that are a result of keeping a social status.

MEDIA
TEEN POPULARITY ACCEPTANCE FITTING FOR PARENTS AND THEIR TEENS. BY KATHLEEN LIEU People actually do understand, but not in a way you want them to. Or maybe they really can't und erstand. After all, who can really read minds? The mind of an adolescent is complex. Life for them has more turns than a soap opera. Navigating through their life is like trying to find one's way out of a labyrinth.

But how hard do they have it? They aren't working. They aren't keeping a whole family together. They are just in school, learning, and having fun while building the ladder to a brighter future.

But it is hard.

It doesn't have to be.

Why then is it such an enigmatic stage and so commercially valuable? At the ages from 11 to even 19 or 20, adolescents and teens really do think they are the center of the universe. If they don't, they want to be. Popularity is not literally to die for, but figuratively speaking, it is.

At this age, friendships are very important. School is the home away from home, a place where these young people spend most of their waking moments at. At home, too preoccupied with the net, homework, eating, and television, they often neglect their families to be in their own little world, to have a little privacy. At home, they can be different people, but at school, they have to keep up facades.

Please do not think that this applies to every teen. I often generalize in my writing.

They often keep their thoughts to themselves. They think no one can understand, asides from the friends they share the same dilemmas, interests, and predicaments with. They often fail to see the bigger picture of things and do not think of the future. Encouraging them seems to be useless and conversations often lead to bickering and even full-blown verbal fights.

When will this stage pass? What did the parents do wrong? What happened to the smiling child who wore everything his/her parent bought, who was happy in his/her parents' presence... What happened to the innocence?

This is the age where peers matter more, unfortunately however, this can be a mixed blessing. It is an age of independence and the teen can learn how to socialize in the world. Another unfortunate event however is that American schooling is inadequate in the areas of providing students with real-world experience. Sometimes, after high school and colleges, some people just don't make it and are stuck in their adolescent/teen stages-- mooching off their parents while continuing to live in their own little worlds.

You are wondering now how the article thus far relates to the title.

Well, for one thing, popularity and acceptance are so important that it often stresses a teen out. Popularity, if only there were a secret to it. How does that beautiful girl with all the boyfriends gain such popularity? Why does she have such charisma? Or why does that guy have so many friends? Why do people laugh at everyone of his jokes?

Insecurity often hovers around a teen. Stress from his/her family, school, and peers can collide. Teenage depression is thus so very common. It is rather unfortunate and ironic. In such a privilege country, teens are wishing for more and more and more.

Realizing that there is a bigger picture out there may set teen priorities straight. Talent exists in generations that are younger and younger. Unfortunately I will have to use the word unfortunately again. Talent is often wasted in pursuit of popularity, an intangible notion that really will do nothing for one in the end.

Time is a wonderful thing not to waste. There are so many things that teens take for granted. Their families, their opportunities... Having just graduated from the teen years, I look back now and only wish that I knew these words when I was a teen.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:

Social status is connected personal life: Because you worry about your friends and how you look like and then live your family by a side and your academic life apart and you only worrie for your social status and your appareance. Personal life is related with social status because some people hide their own personality, likes and dislikes just to become popular and they are afraid to show who they really are. Social status also affect s personal life because it determines an individuals well being the way they feel and the way they assume life. Social status is connected to family life because sometimes people feel ashamed from their family and their relationship starts to break down. Academic life is also very connected to social status because if im a good student I try to ruin my nerd life to become a bad student and continue being popular so to keep a specific social status academic life can be affected.

ELENA ARANGO ULLOA 22/05/12