Picture this:
“New in High School, starting a new school year, leaving behind that fact that you were the big one at middle school, and becoming the small and insignificant one in High School”
This is the picture that this movie had shown to me, the main character is a little girl coming out from middle school, living in the “growing up” world, setting up standards in how to dress, and how to behave, or to act; being the one who everybody look up to, but then becoming nothing, becoming the scratch of the School society, being the one who everybody mocks, or make fun of.
The kind of effect that this situation create in the little girl who is the main character, is stress, stress created by her peers, peers that were in the same situation before, peers that know how does it feel to be the one who everybody make fun of; but in this new scenario there are the ones making the dirty job of mocking.
The stress created by the peer pressure takes her to look up to a way to get out of the situation, to be recognize for those who are in the top of the school social structure seems to be the solution, but how to get there, what do I have to do to get to know them? They are so pretty, they wear make up and provocative clothes everybody knows them and everybody talks about them. How can I get to that level?
The peer pressure stress takes our main character to find a way out of thousands of thoughts that come to her mind, the only way that she finds is to write; writing in her personal diary she feels like she is getting out of all this new world that is driving her crazy, but it is not enough, the thoughts are taking her far away. She is starting a new process in her mind, she now understands and processes the information in a different way, she is now getting into the cognitive thinking process, and she is now really starting to think what to do, asking her self how to get to the next level and also how to get out of all the problems.
As your workers, we have to find the way to get into this world, the best answer so far seems to be related with relationships, knowing each other, knowing the world and social groups, knowing the subcultures and the traditions that involves all the new generations, are going to help us to stay in between, and to create those bridge that we need to connect the new generations, which seems to be so compact in the way they think, that seems to be so right when the stand for the Rights of other, but we all know as Christians that good actions don’t take us to the heaven, we must learn how to communicate in their language the gospel of the eternal life, and intentional relationships play an important roll in this scenario, it is in this way that we are going to get to know them, and to get them to trust us, so through the relationship we can get to talk to them about God and how He can help them to get our, or to go through all the new experience.
“80% of the Christians made their decision to follow Jesus under the age of thirteen... only the 5% after the age of 19 choose to follow Jesus”
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Hi Felipe,
In Thirteen, we definitely see the beginning stages of the process of individuation - and how the peer adolescent role begins to compete for attention with family systems. At the end of the film, we see her coming closer to the point of being willing to make decisions that will benefit her as opposed to listening to what her friends want her to do and/or be.
Peer pressure will influence kids one way or another. This is a common social network for kids to role play new identities through. The challenge comes when these are negative peer cultures. Larry Brendtro suggests that we develop positive peer cultures that can utilize this social group to help positively construct the identity of teens. As individuation progresses, a person will have to spend less time depending on these peer groups, but they provide temporal scaffolding for the construction of identity.
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