BYL EPISODE THREE: FACTORS THAT CAN THREATEN A TEENAGER’S SENSE OF SELF-ESTEEM

A lot of teenagers go through pressure in school, at home, and among peers that could threaten their sense of self-esteem.

A major consequence of this pressure most times from friends lead to a poor self esteem.

A family is the primary unit for every individual; it is the first point of contact for a child while growing up. A child gradually learns and becomes what he/she sees, hears, and understands from his/her family members while growing up. Consequently, there is a mentality that every child consciously grows up with either positive or negative that largely shapes and forms his/her personal beliefs and values.

The teenagers in this episode shares individual and emotional stories about growing up. They explicitly explain the difficulties and challenges they encountered in their various families and among their peers. Some of those challenges shared were parental conflict, maltreatment, body-shamming, financial challenge and inferiority complex.

This episode of BYL (Blackie, yam-leg and lefty) also shares stories of young adults who passionately explains the sudden change in their families’ lifestyle caused by financial challenges and the impact it had on their social status and self-esteem.
Teenagers are people from age thirteen to nineteen that are in secondary schools and higher institutions.

A major characteristic of teenagers just like children is vulnerability. Teenagers have a tendency to be more vulnerable to certain unhealthy actions that could affect their mental and emotional well-being.
A whole lot of actions could threaten a teenager’s self-esteem and eventually lead to an unhealthy self-esteem.

One of the things that could threaten and affect a child’s self esteem is his/her family system while growing up that gets such teenager wired in a particular way either positive or negative. Some of the consequences of a negative family system on a child are lack of self-confidence, inadequacy, less of oneself and the likes.
Some of the vices that could affect a teenager’s self-esteem are domestic violence, frequent shouting, and others unhealthy actions that could affect a child’s mental health. Hence, there is a dire need for parents and guardian to consciously build a positive and healthy self-esteem for their children.

One of the ways parents could help their child build, maintain or either regain their self-esteem is through constant emotional support throughout their teenage years.
Furthermore, studies by mental health experts and practitioners have shown that children with low self-esteem have anxiety issues, depression and engage themselves in drug and substance abuse.
In conclusion, this episode highlights deliberate actions that affect a child’s mental health; self-esteem self-confidence and self-worth. Parenting is also an important part of a child’s self-esteem. It either promotes or affects a child’s self-esteem and self-worth.

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