Teen Descrimination!!!!!????

Question

Why are teenagers considered non experienced...I'll tell you why because our parents won't let us! People call us teens kids! Why?! We want to grow up but they won't let us! Adults look at me as a teen and say "your a rebel" well, NEWS FLASH I am not! Why do they think we're all the same? Why is it so hard being a teenager?!

Answer 1

ITS PART OF LIFE!!!

Answer 2

I think growing up we all go through the these same feelings you are having. Looking back now though it is much easier to see that there is a bigger picture. When you are young you are in such a hurry to grow up and become experienced in life, but when your older you look back and wish you had not been in such a hurry and taken the time to just be a kid. What parents are trying to do is raise you in a way that allows you to enjoy life and not take on all the responsibilities that will eventually fill your life. The treat all teenagers the same because to a large degree the majority are all striving for the same independence and rights to experience life even though they go at it through many different ways. While growing up is a wonderful thing, I can assure you that you really don't want to grow up too fast and miss out on being a kid and treasuring a life with limited responsibilities. There is plenty of time for you to grow up so don't miss out on being a kid because that is only available for a limited amount of time in your life. Right now I know that is tough for you because you've spent your entire life being a kid and you want to grow up but with the average life span hitting the 80 year mark you need to realize that you will end up being an adult for more than 4 times the amount of time you will spend being a kid.

Answer 3

One thing you forget, is that we were teens once upon a tiome too. You dont and cant see it now, but its all very true. You are still kids, you have no idea of what life is really like in the real world! I know thats not what you want to hear, but its very true. It sucks being a teen. But by the same token, you better enjoy it cause those are the best years of your life. I am 33 and just found out that i have cancer, I am not an old man, but I have been there, I now have kids of my own, and i see what my parents were talking about. They support you, care for you, love you, teach you, you really are all the same, you all think you "know it all" and you dont. You are selfish, demanding and uncareing. You will grow out of this and some day you will look back at these days and say "wow, they were right". Remember this day, print this out and put it in a box with things you will always keep with you so in like 20 or 30 years you will find it and remember my words!!!

Answer 4

Its not hard being a teenager. You don't have to work or support yourself, you don't have to worry about being laid off from a job and you don't have kids begging you for money and rides.

Teens go through a rebelious stage. It is just part of them growing up and learning to get out on their own. Its ok EVERYONE goes through it.

You are still called kids but its not meant to be mean You are just not adults yet so people call you kids. Its ok. Enjoy it because being an adult is tough.

Teens aren't considered experienced because they haven't been around long. Once you have YEARS of experience in a matter then you will be considered experienced.

Answer 5

One of the characteristics of a teen... is they don't know how much they don't know. Just because YOU think you're ready for the world, doesn't me you are.

Parents don't take any pleasure, in denying their children freedoms. We do grant assent to the next level, when you've demonstrated you're ready. So here's a NEWS FLASH for you:

Work in demonstrating your readiness for more responsibility and freedoms... Rather then whining about about not having them. THAT is the more adult path.

Finally... it's so hard being a teenager for the same reason as it is hard half standing... When you're sitting, you can sit for a long time, when you're standing you can STAND for a long time... but if you tried to remain half sitting... half standing, you'd be tired in just minutes.

As a teenager, your not a CHILD and you're not (believe it or not) and ADULT... that being between the two states... is uncomfortable and hard... as you let go of one... to become the other.

Good luck... the good new is... Adulthood will INEVITABLY come, and when it's here... you'll wish for some of the things you have NOW that you will lose forever.

Answer 6

Everybody has to experience being a teen. And guess what, everybody asks that same question. but in a few years you will truely understand why teenagers get the stereotype that they have. And it is not because of the behavior of those like you, it is the behavior of 2 to 5 % of teens that cause the trouble and ruin it for everyone. The sad note is: those 2 to 5 % will also grow older with you and ruin everything else as they age. So sorry but for now you just have to deal with it.

Answer 7

First off it is not discrimination. It is called treating you as a non-adult. New Flash: You are not an adult and therefore are not treated as one.

Many times parents do know what is best for you as they have experienced a lot more than you have in your life. If you want to be treated with respect and as an adult then you must earn it, not just want or demand it. From the way you are about this I would say you still have a lot of growing up to do.

Answer 8

Your right, it is hard being a teen.
You haven't the life experiance to keep you safe, no matter how much you fight that fact, you think you know everything and the matter at hand is that, even if your a teen, your parents still have an oblogation to care for you and make sure your safe. And if your running around thinking you know everything and not listening to them, your missing out on things that are important for later.
Once your a parent, you will understand, When your children give you this much grief, then you will totally get why it is the way it is for a teen..
Good luck hon, and Blessed Be...

Answer 9

It is hard because at those years you think you have enough knowledge to take care of yourself and act like an adult, but in actuality, you don't. I know because I look back at the way I acted during that time and thought about what I was thinking, and I see myself thinking what you think, and then see that I was very ignorant about what I thought I knew. The world is a much bigger place and much more complicated than we see as teenagers. If you think you can go make it on your own as a teenager, seek an emancipation. I can guarantee it would be less than a year and you'll be seriously considering begging your parents to take you back and take care of you.

Answer 10

Ok here's what I think...
I know where you're coming from b/c not too long ago I was a teen.
Now that I'm trying to have a baby I keep thinking of how I am going to raise them...I know being a teen was hard.

First off you have to realize your parents want to protect you from harm, they also want to ensure that you have a bright future.

Secondly they have to pay for you. For instance if you get in legal trouble, the courts fine your parents. If you wreck a car, their insurance goes up. If you get pregnant, they are still supporting you and the baby. They pay for your medical bills...I mean they have to pay for everything you do.

You are an investment (to some extent)...they put a lot of money into you, and they want to protect their investment. Everything they do for you is out of love.

I know one day I'll fight with my kids. The sad part is that I know what they are going to go through, but I also know that life is hard and bad things happen to good people. I don't want anything to happen to my baby...just as your parents dont want anything bad to happen to you.

You don't know what life is like until you have to work to put food in your mouth, juggling a job, bills, paying taxes, insurance...honestly life is hard as an adult. There are days where I'd rather be a kid again...being an adult has perks, but over all, having responsibility like this SUCKS!

Good Luck! (and take it easy, they love you...)

Answer 11

Unfortunately, you won't get it until you are on the flip side. Many teens are mature and responsible, many are not.

But turn around and take a look - after you have finished college, started a career, bought a house, filed taxes, had children of your own... and you'll see a different perspective... and you'll understand what all of us old farts know - because we have been there and we realize now, as adults, that yeah, as teenagers we were just kids, and we were inexperienced and sometimes naive.

however, saying that - you are a kid, and you never get to be one again, so ENJOY the time you have with limited responsibility and limited accountability, because you won't get it again until you are elderly and ill and need other people to take care of you. SO BE A KID and be THANKFUL!!