Being a parent is the most blissful opportunity of the whole world given to a couple by the almighty. With the pleasure of being a father or a mother, comes the most sincere and toughest duty. This responsibility does not only include giving your child the best to eat, providing the best to wear, the best education in the whole town, the best unforgettable vacation but definitely it’s a little more than that.

When a child is just a small toddler who is not able to manage lot of things by those tiny palms, there are two hands always ready to help and protect their children from any kind of danger. But few parents forget the fact that as the time passes, the tiny palms also learns to fight with the realities of life and tackles the problems every single moment to cope up with the world. Such parents sometimes end up feeling their children suffocating in their own house. The child grows up, managing the hardships and customary up-downs of the life but what about the parents?

Understanding, belief, trust and independence are the vital tools which hold every relationship bounded together strongly as a pillar to make it last for eternity. Giving the youngster the right amount of space and apposite independence is necessary. As it said those who never fall, never learns. Providing space does not only include providing a separate room for him/her but all about believing in them. It won’t take them away but will flourish a beginning towards shaping their own lives.

It’s better to understand child’s priorities first before imposing your wishes onto them and driving them away from you slowly and gradually.

It’s harder to imagine a life without ‘screen’ but the alarmingly increasing time that the kids spent in front of them, narrate a different tale.

A recent research that surveyed kids of age eight to sixteen years has studied the changing roles of the new technologies and their impact on teenagers. These concluded that they are daily spending almost six hours on an average in front of screens. Televisions, computers and games consoles have replaced books, friends and even parents to an extent.

What’s more, their ‘essential requirements’ also include personalised mobile phones, MP3 players or iPods which could ‘engage’ them all through the day. The parents are forced, even emotionally blackmailed to an extent, to get their high rising demands fulfilled. But this free hand has resulted in an inappropriate freedom to access the advancing technologies like the internet.

Gone are the days when children viewed the internet as the best archive for all their home assignments. Now, empirically proven, assignments and projects are the last thing on their agenda. Kids today need internet access in their rooms for appeasing their need for online socialising. The escalating attractiveness of Social Networking Sites (SNS), blogs and chats has made children addicted to the World Wide Web.

Almost ninety percent of the students surveyed had an online ‘profile’ on at least one of the SNS like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Classmates, Orkut etc. and about fifty percent maintained their blogs. Friendships have broken all geographical barriers and the latest trend is to flaunt a bigger list of ‘friends’, most of whom are unknown faces.

Addiction to instant messaging, or chats, have augmented so much that on one click of the television remote is ESPN for the latest action on the football field while the other hand is telling a different story altogether. Today’s tech-savvy generation has a better understanding of websites like YouTube, Bebo and flickr etc.

However, in a larger perspective, this could have negative implications on their lives. An increased exposure to the screens not only widens the communication gap between them and their parents, but also makes the youth prone to various diseases and disorders and makes them psychologically weak and vulnerable. In addition the language that the children frequently speak, even on formal occasions, is gibberish and highly slanged.

However as the technology advances furthur, the trends are only gonna modify and not supersede.

Owing to the various psychological, physiological, emotional and behavioral changes that a body undergoes during the teenage, it is considered as one of the most struggling phase of a child development process.

Low self- esteem, teenage depression and violence, lack of ambition in life, emotional strains, dissatisfactions with life, possessiveness, depression, eating disorders, poor performance, social isolation and shyness, chronic health issues, sexual maltreatment, substance abuse are just some of the issues that young people struggle with.

Their altering moods and attitudes become much of a problem both for themselves and for others around. It’s a stage that includes many arguments with the elders, authorities especially. Wanting a free atmosphere, they find it most difficult to adjust with others. However the friends gain utmost importance in their life. Addiction to media too leaves a disruptive impact on adolescents, who get inclined towards day dreaming and making unrealistic assumptions. However the biggest problem arises due the clash of their king sized egos. And most of the times, parents are the one at the receiving ends.

A careful treatment, independent atmosphere, psychological and sex education and vocational guidance can help in the effective management of teenache!