Interview your parents or someone from their generation.

Ask them what their

teenage life was like, and what difficulties they faced when they were teenagers.
Ask them too, how they overcome these challenges. Write down their responses.
 What their teenage life was like:

- Fun filled experience in general.

- Adventurous & exciting, because he was able to go to different cities to
teach martial arts when he was 19.
 What difficulties they faced when they were teenagers:

- Hard-core responsibilities, like helping parents in farming

- Family problems
- Financial problem
 How they overcome these challenges:

- Making their faith greater than their problems/challenges. Believing in

God, like keeping a godly perspective.
- Having a right mind-set, like thinking positive.
- Acceptance and striving for the better future ahead.

Then, answer the following questions:

1. Aside from the challenges that you have gone through or are still undergoing,
what other challenges do you see teenagers are facing? List down as many as you
can.
 Insecurities, confidence and expectations – due to social media and
other platforms, some tend to compare their selves, maybe because
they’re better than them, or they achieve greater than them. That’s
why some become insecure and having a hard time accepting
themselves, and setting high expectations that pressures them to
meet.
 Time-management – because the time we have before in childhood is
different than now that we are in adolescence, due to responsibilities
that we need to fulfil.

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  Peer pressure and competition – example is when parents or relatives
sets a high demands/expectations on you and compares you to
others maybe because they’re better and you don’t meet their
expectations about being better.
 Career problems – having a hard time deciding about what career to
pursue in the future.
 Emotional changes/ mood swings - due to hormonal changes,
adolescents have mood swings and frequently change their
temperament.
 Financial stability – being pressure to buy some “wants” because
other has them and you don’t. But you struggle with money.
 Socialization skills - communicating with other people.
 Gender identity – some are having a hard time being accepted with
the society they’re in.
 Indecisiveness - inability to make clear decisions.
 Imposter syndrome – feelings of self-doubt and personal
incompetence that persist despite your accomplishments. Common
to those who are perfectionist.
2. Look at the challenges that the generation of your parents experienced when
they were teenagers. What are the similarities and differences between the
challenges faced by teenagers today and those that teenagers faced during their
time?

- The similarities of challenges we face today compared to what my

parents face during their time are that family problems and financial
problems are still present.
- Differences on the other hand, are the level or range of responsibility
that we have to comply, like teenagers today are more focus of
responsibilities about themselves. Unlike the teenagers before that they
have also to fulfil their whole families’’ basic needs not just for
themselves.

3. What lessons can be learned from the way the generation of your parents
dealt with the challenges that they faced during their teen years?

- The lessons that can be learned from the way the generation of my
parents dealt with challenges that they faced during their teen years
are:

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  In life, we’re all gonna be dealing with tons of challenges or
circumstances along the way. But, with the right mindset and
practice, like accepting the reality, you will be able to overcome
them and grow in the process.
 Of course, putting God first in every area of our lives, mind and
hearts, because he’s the creator and he’s in control of
everything. As we live to please God, He promises to bless our
lives and make us prosper.

Proof:
Basically, I decided to do the
interview with my dad via
call.
Because he’s not at home
this time, busy working at
Tacurong city.
So while we we’re calling, I
just inserted the time to ask
him about this assignment
and recorded his response.

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