Hi, this is Ceema and I am back with a new lesson on teenage secrets.
Well, what is it to be a teenager?
Well teenage is basically that time of your life when you're not really a child but then
you're not really an adult either and therefore teenagers are often very confused.
You know that feel that certain things they do are not really grown up and certain things
they do end up being too childish.
Therefore, they end up keeping a lot of things to themselves and therefore teenagers have
a lot of secrets.
Well, these are some of them.
Now you may have kept or one or may be two of these secrets as a teenager.
Well, let's have a look at what they are.
The first one is the unauthorized usage of vehicles.
So as a teenager, you may have been guilty of driving without a license.
Or maybe you already had a motor license.
It could be a license to drive a car or ride a bike but you have driven without may be
your parent's permission.
so one of the very common secrets, a teenager won't tell their parents is that, at some
point in time or the other, they needed up taking their parent's car to drive it without
even having a license or maybe they had a license and they took it without their permission.
Well, I was guilty of one of these many a times.
Our next secret, which is very common in teenagers, is hiding their real ambitions.
Now, as I said, you know, as a teenager you're not really an adult.
So you have a lot of ambitions.
You aspire to do a lot of things as an adult but your parents; oh they don't want you to
do what you want to do.
So you might want to be an actor or a dancer but your parents want you to be a doctor or
let's say an engineer.
So, because you don’t want to disappoint your parents, you will hide your real ambition.
So you may, you know go to a dance class without your parent's knowing about it or you might
enrol in certain acting classes in your college without your parents knowing about it.
A lot of teenagers hide their real ambitions for fear that their parents won't understand.
Another very common secret that teenagers keep to themselves is pornography.
Well, let me say that pornography is not just a teenage secret.
I would say it is a secret across all age groups.
So I know a lot of people, even right into their adult or middle age who indulge in pornography.
Well, what is pornography?
Pornography is basically viewing explicit adult or sexual images.
Well, pornography sadly is very easily accessible these days.
So these are paid sites, you can go to when logging on to a computer.
You have a lot of magazines through which you can view a lot of sexual content or a
lot of adult images.
so these are sexual or adult images that teenagers and I would say, every age group always view
and that's one of the, you know most common secrets that teenagers have.
A very common secret again is not revealing fights.
Now, what do I mean by not revealing fights?
As a teenager, you have you know very good friends.
You know so; you may have a certain circle of friends that you hand around with.
Now, you will never reveal the fights that you have with this closed knit group of yours
to your parents.
So your parents are probably aware that you are you know hanging around with this particular
group of people but when you have a fight, you make sure that you makeup and resolve
your issues without letting your parents know about it.
So, you don't let your parents know about it.
You hide it from your parents.
Alright, and the next teenage secret is bad hygiene.
Well, not all teenagers have bad hygiene.
There are a few of them.
So, some teenagers, they do not really take very good care of themselves.
A lot of boys I know can may be just go into the bathroom.
They just and go and wash their face.
You know spray a little bit of water in their hair or just apply a deodorant and come out
but they've not really taken an actual bath.
So, bad hygiene is sometimes a common thing that teenagers, you know indulge in and it
is a secret because obviously they wouldn't allow anyone to know that they’ve not really
had a proper wash.
Now that we’ve already looked at 5 teenage secrets.
Let’s look at another 5.
Okay, now we’ve got financial secrets.
Well, what kind of financial secrets would a teenager keep?
Well, there are several of them but I'll just name a few.
Okay, so a lot of teenagers don't really want anyone to know exactly how much money they
have.
So, a teenager, for example, may take up a part-time job
without anyone knowing about it which means that their parents are not even aware that
they have a part-time job which fetches them a little extra money.
So, that way a teenager earns money through their monthly allowances which their parents
give plus the extra bucks which come out of this part-time job.
as a teenager, when my parents sent me to buy you know bread or meat or anything, I
would end up taking more money from them by telling them that you know the price of bread
is not so much but I would you know quote a little higher price and pocket the extra
money to myself.
So, you take extra money, half of which you pocket.
I know a friend of mine, who had you know a phone.
A brand new phone that was gifted by his parents to make that extra money, he sold the brand
new phone and then bought a second-hand phone and pocketed the money that was left from
the new phone which was purchased.
So, these are some different ways that teenagers make extra money without anyone knowing about
it.
Another very common secret among teenagers is memorizing phone numbers.
Now they do this because they don't want their parents to see who is calling them.
So may be as a teenager, you may have a boyfriend or may be a girlfriend that you don; t want
your parents to know about.
So, you will memorize their numbers so that when they call you which I'm sure they do
very often.
Their numbers will not pop on your screen.
So you can tell your parents, something like oh that was my tutor.
That was a dance teacher.
So you memorize important phone numbers of friends that your parents don't like.
So, these are friends that your parents disapprove of.
Okay, that they don't like or they disapprove of.
Now another very commonly kept secret among teenagers is drug, alcohol or sexual abuse.
A lot of teenagers and sadly.
A lot of teenagers indulge in very high drug abuse.
It could be drugs, right from cocaine to LSD to metamorphine you know to marijuana.
It could be all of this.
It could also be alcohol.
A lot of teenagers are very, are very highly influenced by alcohol and a lot of teenagers,
right from the age of 13 to 14 are very, very sexually active.
So, teenagers do keep these secrets from their parents because of course your parents wouldn't
be happy if you were taking too much of drugs or alcohol or indulging in a lot of sexual
activity.
Okay, and our next teenage secret, talks about damaging property.
Now as a teenager you know, you are a little bit, you know high on emotions.
you'd end up, you tend to get a little bit angry, not a little bit I’d say a lot angry
than most normal people.
So, you end up doing things that are not very good for yourself or for the things around
you.
So I know a lot of people during their teenage years, especially boys, they end up damaging
property like they might end up you know damaging their own car.
somebody else's car, in their anger they might end up breaking something in their homes but
when their parents come in, they kind of try to keep a secret and try to tell the parents
that, it happened by mistake.
It was accidental or somebody else did it.
But damaging property is a very commonly kept teenager secret.
One of the last ones I have in my list is, cheating on studies.
Well, teenagers are obviously children.
Well, they are not children but they are still studying may be in universities or may be
in school.
So, a lot of teenagers cheat on their studies.
What does cheating on studies mean?
It means that you don't do your homework.
Okay, you may not do your homework or your assignments that you are given on a regular
basis.
It could also mean that when you are in class and when you are taking a test, there is a
team effort.
Well, I did this a lot of times.
okay when I was giving a test, you know I’d make sure I got all the answers not because
I studied very well but because a lot of people around me helped me to get my answers and
that's how I passed my exams.
Well, that's not a very nice thing to do but this is a very common teenage secret.
Well, that's it from me on this lesson on secrets that teenagers keep.
I hope you found it very interesting.
If you have any more teenage secrets that I’ve not mentioned in here, kindly put them
down in the comments.
Thank you very much for watching.
You take good care of yourself, goodbye.