Teenagers, why do you think you are the only ones that have ever been teenagers??????

Answer 1

Mark Twain is quoted: "When I was 18 I thought my father was an idiot. When I was 21, I was amazed how much he had learned in 3 years."

Just goes to show you, the more things change, the more things stay the same. It's a lesson only learned through experience.

Answer 2

Thats because present teenagers are different from the earlier teenage generations. Due to science and technology, social and living standards and much more. You cannot expect the same teenager 15 years back in the present teenager. The thoughts are much advanced, the knowledge is much deeper, the understanding is also much higher. These teenagers tend to know the potentials in them, by the time they are teenagers. We do see that educational standards of a 10th grader of 15 years back is obviously much lower than present 10th grade standards. Medical issues, mostly mental-related i.e. depression are highly illuminent in these teenager of today. Family values are at times, passed the levels of "Ground Zero" --literally!

Finally i'd like to say that, though the base of a teenager seem to be the same from the past, literally, the teenager of present is much different. "They" experience deeper problems! else,"They" experience better success!

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Well, we know that other people have been teenagers, but times change. Being a teenager now is a lot different than the generations before, as will the next generations experiences be different than the current. There's a lot more to deal with. Especially in the drug area. It's amazing how bad it is in school now. I started drinking in 6th grade, smoking cigarettes in 7th, smoking weed and popping pills amongst other things in 8th. By the end of Freshman year i'd been in rehab twice and had gotten expelled from school, not like I ever went to begin with, though. A lot of teens are looped into skipping class and make it a habit. Then it seems like every single school day or so they have "better things to do" than go to school. As i've gotten older, now I see the next generation even WORSE. Kids are starting to use HARD drugs in middle school. There are 7th and 8th graders dealing, even some 6th. All of this is happening while we still haven't found out who we are yet and haven't completely developed our views, morals, opinions, image, etc. That's a dangerous combination. So, with the huge amounts of peer pressure with the drugs and other heavy choices like that, plus everything else that comes with being a teenager, it's incredibly hard on a lot of teenagers. So, we know that others have been teenagers before us, but a lot of adults can't understand how it's like now days. Plus, teenagers feel things a lot more intensely than others. Emotions run high and we get trapped in our own emotions and become ignorant and self-centered. We think that no one in this world could even begin to understand how you feel and that your parents and other adults are just out to make your life a lot harder.

Plus: A lot of teenagers develop a sort of.... prejudice against adults. A lot of adults don't understand that the teenagers today know a lot more and understand a lot more than they used to. As a results, adults tend to ignore what teenagers have to say. They disregard their opinions and go with a "they should be seen, and not heard" view-point. That gets to a lot of us because we know that we aren't stupid. We know that we know what we're talking about and we loathe when other people don't get that and belittle us.

Answer 4

Ah, the teenage years. I recall thinking my parents couldn't understand me when I was a teen because they were old and they grew up in a different time. The world has definitely changed and teens do face more now, but all those lovely hormones make you think no one in the world could possibly understand your tormet. Yay puberty! Haha

Answer 5

Good question, but you know the answer, you were a teenager once too.

Answer 6

You said it perfectly. I'm a teenager (17) myself, but in a way I know what you're talking about. You nailed it on the head with that one. ;)

Answer 7

Well because we didn't see everyone else go through what we are so we assume you never did and because we're teenagers of our time.

Answer 8

Because their hormones are running rampant blinding their judgement making it hard for them to reason that they aren't the first ones and they won't be the last.

Answer 9

because different eras live differently. We think we know it all and then some and act this way because you didnt have the same experiences.. things are different in every decade.

Answer 10

i used to think it was becuase times change and we are currently teens facing this life when back then they didn't have all the stuff and technology we have now.