Stress in teenagers regarding career selection

                 We often say that children are the wealth of our country and they are our future citizens. The teenagers of our country can distinguish the right and the wrong, much to our happiness. But, how can they succeed to be good citizens if they are under stress which can even lead to depression? I, Sethulakshmi.S of Presentation Higher Secondary School, am doing a project on the topic “stress in teenagers regarding career selection”. I found out from my topic that the main cause for stress in teenagers is regarding the career selection, in which their parents have a great role to play. Most of them are confused whether to follow their passion or to chase their parent's dreams.

              The parents of the present generation are competitive among themselves, which is the main reason for them to compel their children to follow their dreams. They look around and see many doctors and engineers around them, and decide their child must be also like the others. But they often neglect their child's potential and most of these kinds of parents are ready to send their child, who failed to attain a high rank in the government entrance exams, to self finance colleges, in order to fulfil their dreams. But they forget the fact that there are less good job opportunities to the students who study in self finance colleges. They can see their children fulfilling their dreams, i.e. they will become doctors or engineers, but they never get a good job, and they never come along with the ones who studied from government colleges.

              The students who know that they are not capable of it are frightened of their parents and often undergo stress. But this entrance mania continues. This is why I like to study more on this topic. So in the coming posts I will present my project's findings, analysis and conclusion before the world.