Do Parents Actually Understand Their Kids’ Problems?

Adolescents everywhere feel like they aren’t heard by their parents. Young adults feel like they are alone because of the lack of care from their guardians. Going through their struggles and feeling alone takes a toll on them, resulting in them being more closed off. Being a full time student is stressful enough, but having to do every little thing their parents ask of them adds onto it.

“I don’t like talking about my feelings because I´m scared of how’d they react.” Jason Hoyt expressed. Gerald Ward shares similar views on this subject stating, “My dad doesn’t give good advice and my mom would respond with a Bible verse, chastising me for feeling that way.” Both young men don’t feel comfortable talking about their issues with their parents.

This isn’t the only problem kids have with their parents. Teenage student, Ashleigh Syfert, feels like her parents don’t realize how hard it is to adjust to living through a pandemic. “My mom was homeschooled and never had to live through a pandemic as a student, she had a lot more freedom.” A multitude of young adults feel this way about their parents, not everyone thinks so as an abundance of other kids think differently. 

Parents try their best to help their kids out with anything they need. All they want is to help their kids out and make their kids feel more comfortable. They have a job of taking care of you and giving you unconditional love. Actual jobs do get in the way sometimes, making it stressful to balance home life and work life. Having kids and a full time job is a handful, especially if your job is working with kids that aren’t yours. Teachers, such as Mr. Ryan Moore, our very own physical science teacher, has to balance home life and work life. “Personally, it took me a while to get the hang of it but I get my work done and don’t bring work home with me.” He also thinks he does a good job at listening to his daughter’s problems, “I don’t expect her to tell me everything but we’re on that level, I help her with her problems by partially staying out of them.” He, as a teacher and a dad, still does an amazing job with making his daughter comfortable enough with him to share her problems. This isn’t a biased opinion either because students feel like their parents are there for them.

Chase Edwards stated, “I do feel comfortable telling them my issues because I can trust them. I agree with the rules they set for me because they don’t give me much and aren’t breathing down my neck.” He openly expresses that his parents trust him and he trusts them as well. A copious amount of kids and parents have strong bonds with each other. Parents don’t completely understand their kids, but they try their hardest to. 

Relationships between kids and parents are unique all over the world. Parents raise their kids differently, making their kids react differently to their parents. This leaves a tremendous amount of contrasting opinions about parents and guardians. There is no real right answer if parents actually understand their children and there will probably never be one. It all depends on how the participants respond to the situation. Everyone is different and it is up to the people involved to answer the question, do parents understand your struggles?