For most adults, hearing the words teenager or toddler can be enough to make them cringe. Most adults has their preference on which they see to be more preferable, just like how most people commonly prefer to eat chocolate over fruit. People see toddlers and teenagers as impolite or selfish human beings. Needless to say, toddlers and teenagers are more similar than most people care to realize. Toddlers end up going through one frightful stage most parents do not obliterate, the terrible twos and threes. During this stage, toddlers are able to walk and they often become very analytical. They want to explore their surroundings and figure out the mysteries of the world for themselves. In response to their curiousness, parents become extremely cautious about what their young one does because the parents want their toddler to keep from being harmed. This ends up leading the parents to tell the young …show more content…
It does not help that they are dealing with life changes and hormones running through their bloodstream, which throw off teenager’s emotional balance. The teenager phase tends to last longer than the toddler phase. Most teenagers view themselves as older than what they actually are ad expect to be treated like an adult. Along with this mind set, they often think that rules they used to have, no longer are applied to them. Teenagers also deal with peer pressure that often makes them feel obligated to do specific activities. When parents find out what their teenager has been doing, because they care, they often get irritated and scowl their child. Yelling at a teenager and telling them what to do is like disturbing a hibernating bear. Teenagers often resort to displaying their frustration through yelling, shouting, rolling eyes, slamming doors, stomping their feet and sometimes crying. They get easily frustrated because they want to be respected as if they were adults themselves and make important decisions for