Paralyzed
Teens
Being a teenager is a rough time for anyone, even if you
are a football player, cheerleader, or the president of your class. As we
developed in our younger years, we have to make so many decisions. It would
seem that most of these choices were whether to follow the advice of teachers,
parents, mentors, and even the law. All of those obstacles didn’t keep any of
us from going through those hard times to understand ourselves further and
reach into the future for answers. However, many of those struggles left wounds
that sometimes linger well into our middle ages.
Now, imagine the world and the challenges we had and
multiply it exponentially with Internet bullying and texting teenagers sending
Instagrams and pictures simultaneously as life happens, catching all our
mistakes and awkward beginnings in real time for the world and all our friends
to see. Personally, I can’t imagine how much more difficult maturing must be in
this computer age. Pubescence presents a completely new spin on all the normal
teenage problems I faced as a child.
Over thirty years of my past had been spent teaching
children and adults vocal lessons. The kids often came to me with tears in
their eyes, explaining the traumas they dealt with daily at school or at home.
Some were wealthy and had struggles with parents. Some were poor and couldn’t
get the money to take lessons. Some got taunted by classmates. Some were simply
kids making irresponsible mistakes and having to pay the price. Nonetheless,
the stories kept unfolding as I sat behind my piano listening.
What I noticed most about the teenagers is that each
seemed to have a paralyzing fear that they would make the wrong choices and
decisions about their future. Can you imagine being 15 years old and wondering if
your father would love you if didn’t take the summer to learn Chinese? Because,
if you didn’t learn the language of the future, you may not be marketable,
should he choose to go into finance. That happened to be one of the problems of
a child who studied voice.
So, learning to sing, for me, became the desire to teach
children to have a strong voice—to understand what they felt and be able to
voice it with power and authenticity. I was so proud of a couple young teenage
kids who came out of the closet in high school. I couldn’t have imagined a feat
so terrifying as a child. Coming out was hard enough at twenty.
Yet, with the dawn of a closely-knit communities of
friends able to speak to people around the world in seconds, we also get the
great premise of absolving some of our children’s challenges by the dawn of
blogs and trend setters speaking up about their truths. If television and
movies hadn’t been so kind as to create great gay characters for us to laugh at
and cry with, we wouldn’t be as encouraged to face our own insecure selves.
Equally, television and movies did the same for African American, when
television and movies were completely homogenized, some brave producers and
writers created African-American characters we all began to love and invite
into our living rooms. That, of course, was the first step to challenging all
of our prejudices. I’m thankful for those brave souls, and, of course, the
companies who stood behind them financially.
I know that some of my readers are teenagers. Today, I
want you to know that we hear your voice. We do understand how difficult it is
in this day and age to grow and develop into young adults when life presents
you with more than a person should have to handle at your age. My advice is to
find someone or some place secure to be heard. If anything, many of my clients
would continue to come to lessons, not because they were so much interested in
singing, as that they knew they could share their lives with me without
judgment. Being heard is important to your growth.
If you are an adult who has children growing through these
years, listen and be gentle. I know sex and drugs and Internet make it more and
more difficult to monitor our youth, but we simply have to take a bigger role
in the development of our next generation.
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