This article is for me. All the way. I'm fourteen and I'm a chick.

Girls are very dramatic for plenty of reasons and part of it is because we're growing into that "hormonal stage" as all the freaky doctors call it. The other part is that a big portion of our media intake is extremely dramatic, making everything a big story that has to have it's reporters and critiques. We watch things like MTV and assume that we're supposed to be the same as the "pretty people" that we see on the television.

Anyways, we need to be heard about all these little issues because they mean so much to us. Grades are huge for those of us who care about them. I know that I almost cried once (actually quite recently) for failing on a test. It set me in a bad mood for the rest of the day and I came home and had to fight back the urge to snap at my parents. In such instances we're looking for a way to fix the grade so that the number looks better on a report card. We need to know that we're not stupid just because we flunked. We want to know that as long as we tried our hardest, we did good, because trying our best is a rare foot that we put forward (unless your teen is an honor roll, honor society girl).

Most times we run into social issues with other friends or even with boyfriends and get hurt and that pain is new to us. The new-ness of it all only magnifies the feeling and at that stage in life we are open and not so callous as some adults have come to be. We haven't grown as much armor to everything. We're like foreigners in a strange land and once we're teens we're starting to think, "Hey, I've got this life thing figured out. I'm pretty cool."

More than anything, most teenage girls just want to know that they're okay, that all these funky changes are normal. We want someone there to confirm our feminism and tell us we're pretty and smart. We need to know that when we fall, even the smallest bit, that we can pick ourselves back up again. It's a butterfly stage where we're learning to fly, but we need to confidence to jump first. The people we want to praise us and boost our confidences are our parents. That means you have the ability to make us or break us and so that fragile balance is in your hands. That's why we need you to listen.

The whole drama thing? I can't even begin to explain that, 'cause I'm going through it myself and I have no clue what's going on with my brain. Don't ask. We're just all a bit confused.

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