Letters

Dear Sarah,
Hi, how are you? Thanks for your letter, it was great to hear from you. You asked me to
tell you about the relationship between adults and teenagers in my own country, well it is
definitely a complicated situation.
When it comes to the relationship between young people and adults, there are not
always happy moments. In my country, the situation is the same as in each and every place one
Earth, teenagers are rebellious everywhere and there are parents who still don’t know how to
approach them. From my experience, knowing the family-relationships of my friends, there are
problems with the communication, and also with the will to understand the other’s thoughts.
Teenagers are usually distant to adults and tend to search for friends to whom they tell their
problems, and the grown-ups disregard teenagers, think that all of them are problematic and
impulsive, and fail to realise that many have potential to grow.
The problems between them usually appear when parents put restrictions and create
rules, which teenagers don’t want to turn to. The way, each perceives life is different, and when
one of them tries to express an opinion, the other simply doesn’t listen and persist with the
original thought. Trying to find solutions to this problem is usually hard, since a psychologist
should intervene and also trust and respect needs to be built between the two categories. If
parents or children start to gain interest in empathy and putting themselves in the other’s
place, there may be hope to correct the misunderstanding.
Hope I gave you enough details and helped you understand this subject way better.
I can’t wait for an answer from you. Till then, take care of yourself.

Love,
Eliza