From adults to teens to children, everyone has stress in everyday life. Adults have the stress of a job, stress caring for families, and stress paying bills. Children at a younger age also face stress when parent's fight, divorce, or are not capable to learn as rapidly as other kids. Teens also face a lot of stress. Teenagers often have a harder time dealing with stresses because they are at an age when it seems not appropriate, or not cool, to ask adults for help, emotions and hormones are out of control, and sometimes they just don't understand stress causes it. Sports, school, and parents are the three main causes for stress.

The first major cause for stress is school. Test taking, trying to achieve excellent grades, starting a new school, trying to fit in, those can cause stress at school, stress cannot be always terrible, some will cause pressure that will cause one to work harder. But mainly stress leads to headaches, lack of concentration, forgetfulness, or stomachaches. I understand this past couple weeks I have undertaken more stress than I ever have felt before. I had these school comp papers due, Seneys huge test coming up, and semester tests in general; this made me feel large amounts of stress. The further students find themselves in school, the extra stress they feel over trying to search out the perfect college and deciding what to do with their lives, I know next year college will only cause additional stress for myself and family dealing with financial aid. Again school is a major source for stress.

A second stress symptom are the sports. Winning or achieving my goal is the greatest accomplishment in the world, when students participate in school sports, feeling stress from coaches, teammates, and parents are common in sports, which causes an enormous stress.

The last one is from our parents, they want us to be excellent, brilliant, and somehow force us to try our best, to be the greatest one. Pressure from parents cause tremendous stress, day by day, students have to study so hard to get what their parents want. Until one day they feel overwhelmed and do not want to try to get anything else.

So what could we do to reduce those bad effects? Parents and their children should share each other's thought and try to understand what they are having to face up. Schools should focus on soft skills training or teamwork skill instead of grades or semester results.

Understanding is the key solution to this situation, and with the help of social, I believe students's life wouldn't be so hard in the near future.