Psychology of Teenagers
Introduction:
There are many kinds of teenagers in this world. There are those who are especially quiet and shy, those who talk a lot and like company, those who prefer to be with his usual friends, and those who are extrovert and like to mix around with new friends. However, we will not be talking about any of those kinds mention above. In our topic, Lifestyle of Teenagers in Singapore, we will be focusing more on the "distinct" kind of teenagers in Singapore.
When we use the word distinct, we refer to it as the teenagers who behave rowdily in public and resort to gangsterism to solve their emotional problems. These are the teenagers who often end up committing crimes like shoplifting, robbery, and even drug abuse.
Most people, when they talk about these problem teenagers, often feel that they are all bad people without proper education and feel that they are the inferior people of the country and thus do not like mixing around with these people. When they read about these problem teenagers going to the rehabilitation center or boy’s home for crime they’ve committed, people often feel that they deserve it.
However, in doing so, most people have shown that they have a lack of emotional intelligence. These young teenagers who commit crimes, are human beings too. They feel and think like any other normal teenagers. So, since all men were born good, how did they become a delinquent? What was the reason why they wanted to commit crimes? What is the psychology of these teenagers? We shall now unravel the mystery of all this questions to you now.
Adolescence:
Adolescence is a very important part of a child’s life. It signifies a child’s growing up into an adult from an ignorant little kid. However, it is also the most dangerous period of time for any child. This is because if the child is not guided properly through his growing up days, he may be led astray by bad company to commit crimes of low degree like gangsterism to those which may result in the death sentence here in Singapore like drug trafficking or drug abuse.
Result of misguidance:
What happens if a child is not guided properly in the rightful way of life during his adolescence days? As a child grows up to become a to-be adult, he starts having a mind of his own and makes his own sets of thinking. If this child is properly guided while he starts shaping his personal thoughts and beliefs, he will grow up to be a worthy citizen of our country. However, this is not always the case in all the teenagers. It is exactly this reason which resulted in the number of teenage crime cases in Singapore.
During a child’s teenage days, he will often face many personal problems but some teenagers will not reveal it to anybody except their closer friends. Due to this, if the parents of these teenagers do not do anything about it, like showing concern for the child and assuring him that it is okay to confide his problems with them, the child will instead turn to his friends. If his friends are those who are any other normal teenagers, it should be okay. However, these teenagers often prefer to stick with friends who face the same problem as them, that is, family problem, that their parents do not bother about them and do not care about them.
These teenagers would often hang around with their so-called "good" friends. At the beginning, it seems all okay. However, when these group of friends are face with days of boredom, they will start thinking of wild ideas to have some fun. Their wild ideas, like vandalism and shoplifting, may seem perfectly alright and very fun to them, because they never tried anything like that before and may not be taught that these things are against the law.
As the days pass with them doing these "fun" stuff without getting caught, they begin to get bored of these as well. In this case, they start thinking up of even wilder ideas, for example, robbery or even extortion. Some of these teenagers actually do these things without knowing that they are wrong. It is only when they get caught that they knew it was wrong, and when that happens, it is all too late already.
There are also some teenagers who knew they were committing crimes but they still continue doing it. The reason being that they had nothing to do and wanted a challenge and they believe that they will not get caught for committing crimes because they were too smart for the police.
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