Press Release Summary = Teenage rebellion can be a sign of health, especially in girls.
Press Release Body = July 24th, 2006 ,Teenage rebellion can be a sign of health, especially in girls. In an essay contributed to Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century,
Nancy Gruver has written that girls are understandably outraged by injustices. However, the process of socialization teaches girls to swallow their healthy anger.
Unfortunately, then, the anger that could fuel needed change in our society is misspent. It gets turned inward as self-destructive choices, or girls express it,
ineffectively, in blind rebellion.
Girls who are troubled are often the brightest and most sensitive. They either learn too well what society seems to want from them (such as sexual precociousness or
underachievement) or they simply refuse to go along with the unfairness. These girls challenge us to find healthier ways to educate them to be contributors to a more
just society.
Exhausted parents are torn between advocating for their girls and wishing their girls would "just go along and get along" in school settings that trample their
self-esteem. While a family's love and concern can do much to build resiliency in their girls, no single family is strong enough to protect its daughters from the effects
of a "girl-poisoning" culture. If only we could train girls to use their energies to correct injustice in the world, rather than being self-destructive.
We can. One way to do that is to educate girls in an environment prepared especially to focus on girls - their needs, development, strengths and talents, and the way
they learn. Girls boarding schools is just this type of environment
For instance, one girl was used to hearing boys yell, "Cat fight!" whenever girls disagreed with each other in class. When she transferred to an all-girls school, she
found that girls were encouraged to debate, to speak their minds, and think through their opinions. No longer shut down by the boys' teasing (which went on right in
front of teachers) she developed her thinking and communication skills.
This effect is strengthened even more in girl's boarding schools, where girls live in a girl-centered world 24/7. Many parents find that boarding schools give their
daughters a more positive set of peers, so that peer pressure work for girls, instead of against them. Instead of feeling pressure to experiment with sex and drugs, girls
feel challenged to be the best they can be.
For many parents finding out that their son or daughter has been struggling with teen drug abuse is a catastrophic revelation. Thoughts of failure, disappointment, guilt,
and embarrassment flood a parents mind. However, you must remember that you are not the only parent to face such a situation. And more importantly, many
families have overcome teen drug abuse in the past. Many of them itself creates ideal conditions for the development of troubled teens, because it have proven that such teenagers have underdeveloped front part of the
main brain, which makes it difficult for them to determine right from wrong. Many believe that troubled teens are product of the society they live in. But as it was
already mentioned, it is most likely a combination of reasons that make teens troubled. I realize it is not easy to deal with the fear of the unknown, however sometimes the fear can be worse than the situation. If you have trouble managing your anxiety of
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