How can you help your teenager find their way?
The issue of managing the mental load is frequently addressed when I assist my clients in reaching their developmental goals, and in particular for parents, a question about "how to help your teenager to find one's way" comes up frequently.
Let's look at the difficulties teenagers encounter when deciding on a career path and the essential attitudes you can adopt to best support your child during this stage of life in this article.
Adolescence brings about a number of challenging physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes for the young person.
His self-image is impacted by his puberty-related physical changes as well as the difficulty of his social interactions.
Their ability to reflect and abstract themselves grows, along with their critical thinking skills and the intensity of their emotions (mood swings, disputes among friends, first steps in a romantic relationship, challenging communication, etc.).
Adolescence is also a crucial time for young people to begin constructing their identities and lay the groundwork for the self-confidence that will guide them throughout their lives.
Adolescence is a delicate time of transition for both children and their parents due to all of these difficulties.
In addition to these numerous difficulties, our educational system requires our teenagers to select a career path by entering them into predefined boxes and sectors.
An additional source of social and familial pressure is this stage of academic and professional orientation.
Since you don't yet fully understand who you are, how can you know who you want to be in life?
Education and career guidance-related information comes in many forms and is frequently complicated.
Where should I ask? Who can you trust? How to have visibility on all the possibilities? How can one build a professional project that makes sense while being aware of the professions of the future?
Teenagers are then confronted with a variety of decisions, including picking a career path, a school, or a job.
Because of this, young people are forced to transition from being in child mode to adult mode while still learning about their personalities, areas of interest, and passions in order to make interesting decisions for their future.
Know the basis for your decision and the standards you'll use.
Even for mature women and men, choosing a fulfilling profession is a delicate matter!
Because a student typically has less exposure to the working world and less knowledge of the woman or man he wants to become, this question is all the more difficult for them.
Therefore, the risk for the young person is to choose by default or to let others decide for them when choosing an orientation project or a profession is too difficult to make!
Overcome socioeconomic challenges and make positive future plans.
Some young people, especially those from modest backgrounds, also have to deal with future fears and uncertainty.
These young people can then reflect on other issues such as their readiness to integrate successfully into society and their right to dream and realise their goals.
On the other hand, young people from affluent socioeconomic backgrounds might struggle with feeling like they fall short of their parents' aspirations.