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The Importance of Self-Esteem in Teens

Ideally, as babies, we feel loved and valued by the messages from our parents and others around us. But even young children who were bathed in* self-worth have doubts when they hit adolescence, having to learn all over again how to feel comfortable in their own skin.

“There are all kinds of issues about physical development, interpersonal skills and temperaments that can hit the wall* with adolescence,” says

psychologist Robin Deutsch. Young teens are constantly being told they’re growing up, adding pressures of new responsibilities, certain rights and advantages, and expected behaviors they may not be ready for.

Learning the hard way

Nancy Chong-Hogan, 36, understands the importance of self-esteem, having grown up without it. “I my own self-esteem,” she says. “I would say things like,

‘That boy wouldn’t to out with me because I’m Korean.”

Chong-Hogan was raised in a small town in America, where the only girls who looked like her were her three sisters. She struggled to.

Her parents divorced when she was 14, and her mother three jobs to make ends meet*. Feeling she has no one to talk to, the girl began an internal

conversation that she wasn’t good enough.

“When you have low esteem, you always look outside yourself to fill that void. I reached out toward boyfriends, ” she says. “But in between, when I didn’t have one, I felt the most and depressed and suicidal.” She hit bottom in 1996 when she failed her first class in college. That summer was her turning

point.

“I had a lot of time to reflect on what I’d failed,” says Chong-Hogan, crediting her husband, Chris. “There was a change in my perception, and I make up my mind that I was not going to let anything in my past get to* me.”

 

Vocabulary Focus

bathe in (phr v)--- to cover with something that causes a pleasant feeling

hit the wall(idiom)--- to reach a point where you cannot make any more progress

make ends meet (idiom)--- to have just enough money to pay for the things your need

get to (someone) (v phr)--- to cause someone to feel upset or angry

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