Being a teenager in the 21st century is not so obvious. While they rarely tell adults what bother them, six young people have confided in us.
Some parents have established, from an early age, a relationship of trust with their children, so much so that they always say everything, without taboo. And they are lucky, because a teenager who confides in his daily life is an additional chance to advise him or to help him if he needs it. But adolescence is an age at which one rarely dares to confide in adults, and even less to his parents. Approaching the first loves, sexuality, concerns at school … Young people tend to keep these concerns for them and to say that everything is fine. We have just questioned young people of all ages to really know what worries them most in life and what they need to be reassured.
Of course, the school they rub shoulders with on a daily basis is one of the first sources of concern among teenagers. But what comes back most often for the older ones is above all the orientation. Chirel, aged 18, spends his baccalaureate this year: “What stresses me the most (in addition to having my baccalaureate) is knowing which job I want to do later. In fact, I don’t know at all and it’s now that I have to choose“She confides to us. Parcoursup is also “A real hassle“, Adds Elsa, 16, who she does not know if she makes the right choice for her future.”We are asked, from the 4th, to make salons, open doors, internships … But when we do not know what to do despite all that, it anxious, it puts the pressure“Confears the girl.
Adrien, meanwhile, aged 12, tells us that relations with other students in his college are sometimes difficult to live. “”I have not spoken to my mother, but there are always older people who play the “caïds” and who we lack respect in the courtyard or in the canteen. They jostle us, they lower us to feel stronger than everyone, and it stresses me, when I meet them“, tells us the young boy. Stéphane, he feels little” popular “in his class, he is” afraid of being alone “especially since his friends have for the most part, already a girlfriend … for others, who certainly see the information on television a little too often with their parents, the fear of a”Third World War “ is felt like Mattéo, 14 years old … An anxiety -provoking climate that brought Aurore, mother of two young girls, cutting television in the evening.
We also questioned Noa, 16, just out of adolescence. And good news, he seems to live “his best life”, without any particular anxiety. In love, “looking forward to starting his first report, he seems happy and fulfilled. His only fear? “”That of choosing a job that I would not like in the end later “he confides to us. A weight that ultimately weighs heavy on the shoulders of all our young people.