A TEEN ISSUE

A post by Carolina Vasiliu

A very common issue for teenagers is their insecurities, more specifically, body insecurities.

When boys and girls become teenagers, of course their bodies change, a lot, and it can cause good or bad reactions on them. It depends on how they think about themselves, physically, sometimes they can stand it or not.

But the majority of teens don’t really like their bodies, but why is it like that? Well, it can be because of social media, because all they see there, they take it as something they should be. They think that their skin is gross because of their pimples, and it should be soft, without pimples and like celebrities / influencers' skin. And some of them try to get rid of these “imperfections” and try to make it look like baby’s skin.

The same happens with their bodies, maybe they think they’re too fat and eat less or do too much exercise to make it look good. But it can also be some unfunny jokes or insults that make them feel insecure and do all of those changes to their bodies, or the comparation.

I think we should try to be more careful with the words that we say to the teens and be nice to them so they can feel okay with themselves and tell them nice things so their self-esteem can grow and will be much better!