I love being a teenager. I've had to grow up with a very strict step-dad (he was born in the 60's to very strict catholic parents) and most of the time we disagree (well almost all of the time). He doesnt like the way i dress, where i go out, the music i listen to, what time i get in from nights out etc.
For me, being a teenager is all about having fun while you still can, we have little responsibilty (from here on its marriage, family etc etc). I hate being stereotyped though, so what if i listen to different types of music, or have a night in town after a long week of work/college, or I like to have a couple of drinks after a long week (im 19 - allowed to drink) and catch up with my friends. Im having fun, the way our parents, grandparents etc did when they were our age. And maybe its different to what they did for fun, but times have changed, people have changed and we just have to roll with it.
Yeah there are teenagers out there who do take drugs and are violent drinkers and are asbo kings/queens, they give the rest of us a bad name. If people want to stereotype the rest of us then its their problem, in my opinion they're the arrogant ones for thinking that teen out there acts like the 'skins' characters (its a program on e4).
I know its easy to say, but times really have changed. And im sick of being looked down on because im 'under the age of 20' and therefore must be 'troubled' somehow.
Lots of my friends have had babies, they also have great partners and houses of their own, are holding down jobs while being full-time parents and are setting a great example for their children.
If small minded people cant wake up and realise that the world is changing and instead of being criticised or looked down on, teens should get recognition for the work they do, or the children they are raising or at least a bit of praise for steering clear of the asbo's or drugs etc, instead of all of us being labelled 'drugged up, drink fuelled, anorexic/overweight, suicidal, depressed' teenagers.
And do people stop to think that maybe the teenagers who are some of these things might actually need help or support or just a bit of comfort...
(my rant is now over)
2007-03-21
05:40:09
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Mrs Nemanja Vidic
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