Walk into any teenager’s room and you are likely to come across posters of teen idols wearing too much make-up and too little clothing. You may spot an item of child clothing lying around and you wonder, “How did I ever let me purchase such a thing?” Children choose models for themselves as early as the preschool years. The type of models changes with the development level of the child. Yet with the television and media exposure and peer pressure that teens are faced with, it’s no wonder that they dress, act, and look the way they do.
Kids today have an impossible standard of ‘look great, be cool, act cool now and at any expense”. Today’s teens need to hear from each other that it’s OK to look great, be cool and act cool, but the standards for it, and the time table in which it must be done, is not at the expense of mental or physical well-being. I suppose that using books where teenagers are the positive model roles is a good way to reach teens and provide them with positive models they can identify with.
Moreover today’s teenagers are the first generation to have grown up less healthy than their parents. Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, obesity and sexually transmitted diseas have replaced childhood infections of the past, such as tuberculosis, polio and are exacting a greater toll.
So, making a conclusion I can say that teenagers are the most influenced group of people and they need support from the elders.
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