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According to the University of Wisconsin’s Centers for Action’s survey of 37,339 youths, 97.0% are worried about getting good grades. When confronted, most of who were surveyed stated that their parent’s attitude towards schooling played the largest factor in their own commitment to their education (Council 1). In most cases, parents have done well at influencing their children to strive for better grades. However, no matter how hard one tries, there can only be one “top of the class.” It is this fact tha
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…Many of today’s young people are growing up primarily influenced by their peers rather than adults.
Make certain that your teen gets enough positive and undivided attention. Something such as this could completely destroy a teen’s self-confidence. If they have always done what it is that they want, why would they ever allow someone to take it from them? That is where a parent comes in again. Parents with teens like this often say that is “just the way teens are today” (Maxym 1). There is no book on how to parent a kid and if there is, it could never be completely accurate to every circumstance. , combined to cause for teens of today to have less adult influence than teens a few years ago. Sadly, very few adult role models are present for children to live up to. Divorce will leave a family with forever scarring “splinters” that may effect that teenager for life. What a teen in this type of situation needs is a role model to follow and not a drill instructor. One out of every four teens will have parents who are divorced (Haley 1). My advice, as a teenage growing up in today’s world, is to do your own part in the life of your kids.
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