i hate when older people think the teens are ignorant and stupid when we actually have something to say and it is really important..
they don't respect us at all
2007-01-22 17:50:28 · 14 answers · asked by dylicious92 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Well that kind of depends on what "teen" age you are talking about a 13 or a 19. Because there is a big difference there.
Tell me, do you work? Do you pay for your own housing, electricity, water, gas, food? Do you experience in raising children?
What is the most important thing to you right now?
Compare the answer you give to that question to the answer a 40/50 year old would give to that question.
You want to be treated with respect, then earn it.
I love my brother very much. And he has come to live with me in the past. During this time, I remembered what being a teenager was like for me. It was a lot different than the way he is living now! I worked through school, had to pay for my own car, gas, insurance. Was married by the time I was seventeen and probably more mature than the average seventeen year old at that time.
If you can sit there and tell me you have earned the respect that the older people have worked/slaved/shed blood sweat and tears to get for many, many, years (and still don't get it) then maybe I am wrong. But I doubt it. Because even today, older people who have lived their lives, raised their children, worked their fingers to the bones and are now stooped over with old age and can barely see to drive are shown nothing but disrespect, hatred, impatience and annoyance. So I guess basically what I am trying to say, is, join the club. They feel the same way.
2007-01-22 18:06:42 · answer #1 · answered by †♥mslamom♥† 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Think of how you look people younger than you, even just a year or two younger. You probably see them doing the same things you did, things that you've learned more about, or things you wouldn't dream of doing.
Now picture yourself a few years later looking back at the current you.
I think a lot of adults see teens how you might see a person younger than you; less life experience to sum it up.
If an adult sees you looking at yourself and your actions constructively, they might begin to treat you as a person with a determination to mature, rather than resist by having contempt for people older or younger than them.
Just be aware of how you have already matured, and imagine how much you have yet to mature.
Even a 60-year-old knows there is more to learn, and by then they have so much life before them that they are inescapably aware of it.
Get ahead early! And by the time you are their age you'll be Confucius compared to any adult that treated you like you are ignorant or stupid.
2007-01-22 18:07:18 · answer #2 · answered by Sheepish486 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, I have said this before. I have a theory on today's old people. They are EXTREMELY closed-minded, proud of it, and rude about it. I think it's their generation though. I don't think it's an age thing, I just think that generation was taught to beat their children with sticks, gays should be tied to the back of a truck, children should not speak until spoken to, women are inferior to men, electronics are evil and foreign, and if you're foreign, F you, and they're also Christian on top of all that. We will make MUCH better old folks than the ones we have now.
Oh, and one more thing: teens are pretty wrong a lot of the time. When you're older, there's a pretty good chance you'll think back and laugh at a lot of the stuff you're doing now. Just to letcha know.
2007-01-22 17:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because teenagers are kids, as one of your old people your talking about. Sure i had things to say as well when i was younger but i know for a fact that i don't stand for those things anymore and looking back on some of them. I have to go " what were u thinking?" There is no reason to seek acceptance from other people, also calling them narrow minded because they don't wanna listen to you is ignorant, because in the same breath your doing the same to them.
2007-01-22 18:12:40 · answer #4 · answered by Charl V 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well thats not right at all... I mean they have to listen to teens and if they are wrong they need to give them advice! You can not ignore them, they are not a child anymore, they are growing and they have their own minds and thoughts, if the parents ingnore them, then the teens wont have anywhere to turn to , and talk to, so that is just not right at all!
2007-01-22 17:54:36 · answer #5 · answered by Scorpio Girl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
teens are children with under matured brains as a rule they have something to say but not always the ability to think fully coherent enough to make judgments well enough or the experience to take heed of the "boogie men of life" .Poetical license please.
give them the benefit of their vulnerability .
peace out
2007-01-22 17:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats not true exactly.. we forget sometimes that we arent your age anymore and then realize that when were your age we thought we were grown now looking back we realize that you are just kids compared to our age but we never talk down to young people we talk to you and perhaps you maybe thinking they are talking down to you when in fact they are talking and including you as an equal..
2007-01-22 18:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generalizations=bad. shame!
2007-01-22 17:53:36 · answer #8 · answered by fancy unicorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it seems they forget they was a teen once too..i guess its they're way of getting back at the people that done that to them...pretty childish if u ask me...but i wouldn't let that little issue bring me down..enjoy your youth cus u wont have it long..
2007-01-22 18:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by erdna8183 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you present yourself. Do you act like a child or like an adult when you want to be heard? Respect is earned.
2007-01-22 17:59:22 · answer #10 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋