<p>Adolescents face many important decisions, challenges, etc.</p>
<p>TEENS: For you, what would you say your top three "issues" (decisions, challenges, etc.) are right now (in rank-order)?</p>
<p>PARENTS: What do you think the top three "issues" are for today's adolescents (in rank-order)?</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>(Teen here)</p>
<ol>
<li>Finding that drive I once had (wonder where I lost it)</li>
<li>Improving GPA and Statistics.</li>
<li>Getting more sleep.</li>
</ol>
<p>(Can I do more than 3?)</p>
<p>If so here...</p>
<ol>
<li>Figure out what the hell's going on with my social life!</li>
<li>Figure out my college list.</li>
</ol>
<p>Teen.</p>
<ol>
<li>Financial difficulty (working a job, etc.)</li>
<li>School (classes, clubs, etc.) / college (essays, etc.)</li>
<li>Am I gay?</li>
</ol>
<p>If I were to have more than 3...</p>
<ol>
<li>What happened to the writer in me? (long personal struggle)</li>
</ol>
<p>Teen:</p>
<ol>
<li>Social Issues (girls/boys etc)</li>
<li>School Issues (papers, college)</li>
<li>Clubs</li>
</ol>
<p>Ok just remembered some more!</p>
<ol>
<li>(should be) Financial difficulty</li>
</ol>
<p>(Drop everything down a bit)</p>
<p>
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3. Am I gay?
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It's more like Am I bi for me. Apparently you have to like only guys to be gay, who knew! :p</p>
<p>(Teen)</p>
<ol>
<li>Saving money (now that my paychecks pay for my own groceries in the apartment, not a meal plan)</li>
<li>Priorities/Procrastination</li>
<li>My brother evicting my other brother from his house (owner is 25, renter is 21, so not like it's a 13 year old being kicked out)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>Making a preliminary fantasy football roster.</p></li>
<li><p>Should I cut the grass now?</p></li>
<li><p>College App. selection.</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>Should I still not date? Its screwed me up in the past.</p></li>
<li><p>What should I do with my summer during the boring times (when no with friends)?
a. Extra self study for placement exams
b. Memorize permutations for F2L Speedcubing
c. Practice Piano
d. World of Warcraft</p></li>
<li><p>Is my dad actually reliable enough to financially help me with a private school's tuition?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Parent:</p>
<p>(1) balancing social life with school work
(2) dealing with parental and peer pressure
(3) finances</p>
<ol>
<li><p>getting into prestigious ivy league so I can make lots of money and be respected. [this was sarcasm]</p></li>
<li><p>(getting into college)</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li> College/Getting into- i know what i want/i just can't get into any of them</li>
<li>Spending my whole summer stressing over it</li>
</ol>
<p>Teenager.
1: studying math, statistics, physics without succumbing to existential angst
2: getting into grad school by initially trying to get into contact with faculty with research (but only when i'm comfortable with 1)
3: studying other things of interest (social sciences, neurobiology)</p>
<p>Teen
1. Getting into college
2. Social Life..
3. Sleep.</p>
<ol>
<li> Drugs/partying.</li>
<li> Bringing my grades/SAT scores up.</li>
<li> Sleep.</li>
</ol>
<p>1)studying abroad
2)top notch grades
3)top notch grad school</p>
<p>1) Getting into college and securing my future
2) Tennis
3) Cabin/Sleep/Hanging Out</p>
<p>Medha and Kyledavid80 are you guys joking or are you serious. If your serious good luck with that. And isn't that something you usually just know. And don't confuse not being able to get a girl or no girls ever liking you in your life, as a signal your gay, as some idiot in my school believed as a reason why he thought he was gay. He just had no game and was very ugly. Remember. You have to like boys, not unable to get girls.</p>
<p>for me: 1. managing school work and extracurriculars
2. coming out. being queer isn't an issue, but telling some people, ie. parents, is.
3. finding a job/ managing financial crap.</p>
<p>And no, Kenshinsan, i'm not "joking".</p>
<p>1<em>Worrying about getting into college
2</em> Improving my SAT scores
3* Trying to maintain some semblance of a social life (being a cloistered homeschooler makes it difficult)</p>
<ol>
<li>not procrastinating</li>
<li>senior pictures (currently)</li>
<li>figuring out what happened to my friends groups</li>
</ol>