You forgot your speech in front of the class and heard yourself stutter through those last few sentences. Your lunch money trickled out through a hole in your pocket, and you just know your stomach will growl during math class.
Teenagers experience many situations in their daily lives that can lead to an overload of stress.
We usually find ourselves dangling from this rope somewhere in the middle. The stressful events of teen years aren't kid stuff. They can prepare us for an adult life where stress is handled well, or one in which stress sends us into a mental and physical downward spiral. It is important for teens to start finding stress-management strategies that work well. Junior Angelique Martinez feels that her most stressful experience is trying to understand her parents.