Hi I am Shannon and I am not a great writer and to tell you the truth I am simply doing this just to receive a good grade in my class. I am going to talk about pressure, pressure from parents, pressure from fellow peers, and ext.

When it comes to pressure I receive a great deal of it. I have been playing softball for about the past 5 years. And now that I am a junior in High School I feel like I get twice the pressure then i did before. When some parents talk to their kids they talk about how their day was or what they are going to do that week, but when I talk to my dad all he ever talks about is softball. I understand that he is just trying to help me go to college but the pressure he puts on me is too much. After school we always go to the batting cages and if I don't do good, he tells me that I'm not trying hard enough. My life REVOLVES around softball.

If your parents are like my dad then I know how you feel and the best way to deal with the pressure they put on you is by looking at it in a positive way. I mean they are just trying to help you succeed in life. My dad is the first one to get angry at me when I do something wrong when playing softball and it always feels like he is never happy if he feels that I'm not trying hard enough. Sometimes the pressure from my dad comes off like this in my perspective, but in reality it's not that bad. I'm just a teenage kid always over reacting everything.



I feel that one of the hardest pressures to deal with are the ones from your parents. I always react the wrong way toward my dad when he pressures me. I get angry and yell, but I should take his pressure and turn it into encouragement and do better out on the field. If you get pressure from parents you should look at it from their point of view before retaliating (I should listen to my own advice).