I have been struck recently by the competition between teen DD and her friends. Not only is it necessary to be popular and cool but also it's also necessary to appear to be perfect in all aspects of life by being beautiful, clever, sporty, talented and well travelled. DDs friends seem to be trying to outdo one another in life and on social media with stealth boasts about things like extra study or working out with filtered photos of teen with abs 'amazing workout today now to exercise my mind' #extrastudy kind of stuff.
The pressure to be all round perfect is just immense and far removed from my experience of being a teen which involved very much trying not being perfect. I felt there was more solidarity among my peers about being a teen and what were going through whereas today appearing to be perfect and maintaining your own PR campaign seems to be everything. I think we supported each other more and felt less isolated because we weren't trying so hard to outdo each other.
Is this just a theme with DDs peers or common with most teen girls today?
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TrollMummy · 23/04/2017 18:01
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