FAMILY

By Pradipta

12 Science 2 (12 level B2)

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home”. I think this is the best quote about family. Why? Because the meaning of this quotes is so true. It means if you want to have a great or strong nation you have to start from all the people in the nation. The people in the nation must have great personalities, and a great personality starts at home because the personality of each person is built from family.

Being a teenager is the best time of your life; I think. Being a teen is a very energetic age. You want to try everything – good or bad. You want to know everything and you think everything that you do is right and say “I’m a teenager and a teenager does this” as the reason. Being a teenager is all about finding your identity, so, family support is needed when a teenager starts to try everything without knowing the risk of what they do. Many teenagers are trapped into doing bad things like not going to school, bullying, or even doing drugs. I’m sure teenagers do those things because of their type of friends. They start to follow what their friends do even if they know it is bad. Many teenagers think that if they don’t follow their friends, they are not cool. In this situation family has to remind them to make friends with good people, or even if they want to make friends with bad people they have to decide to follow only the good in those people and let the bad things be your experience. So, family is important. Teenagers start to lose their way when there is nobody around to remind them. Parents may be too busy with their work and have no time for conversation with their child and this is not good. Parents must make time to talk with their children. If every night parents sit down and have a conversation with their child, I’m sure that child will open up to them about everything. Parents must be their child’s best friend at home so the parents will know what their child does at school and can remind them to do the right thing.

So, the point is, family or parents must be the teenager’s best friends at home so they can know everything about their child and can remind them about the good or bad habits they get from their friends.