Not to be preachy, but what is some good advice that young teenagers need today?

Question

I am not a parent, but I have a sister and brother who are in their teens.
It seems that young teenagers are only concerned about having a boyfriend and whether or not they should have sex at the age from 13 - 16 yrs old. Seems to be more so than when I was in highschool which was 10 years ago.
Teenagers should concentrate more on getting an education and not who they should hook up with this week.
Please if you could give advice to young teenagers today do so.

Answer 1

Tell them to have sex as soon and as often as possible. The more they have sex, the less they have to worry about it. Oh and it feels REALLY good.

Answer 2

girl i know excatly what your talking about and i feel the same way. I am so tired of getting on here and reading about some 11 and 13 yr old having a baby and thinking they are pregnant. I cant help but feel sorry for them because they are just kids theirself and they are about to have a kid. This world isnt made for kids to raise kids. Its just too hard. Instead of having sex they need to go out and play in the dirt and enjoy being a kid when they still are.

I started having sex when i was younger but if i could go back and change that then i would but i cant and that kills me. ( The first question that i even asked on here explains everything if you want to go read it) But they need to realize that they have the rest of their lives to have sex and they dont need to do that now. You can always grow up but you can never go back!!!

Answer 3

Well, I'm a high school student and I really don't care for all that crap. Kids today need to focus on school or else America is gonna turn into a Chinese/Indian colony. I do well in school, get all As and take difficult classes. When you watch the other peoples' ridiculous behavior, you can just think "Well, these people will be working for me in the future..." Today's society has changed a lot, and it's going downhill.

Also, kids today need to learn the value of a dollar. I live in a fairly wealthy community and every day, I watch classmates come to school in brand new cars filled with $3000 laptops, iPods, etc. And there are hardly any students that have jobs. It makes me angry to see how they act with (their parents') money. Then I'm out in town finding ways to get odd jobs to just overcharge these crazy people. If there are people that don't know how to handle money, those that do know how will ALWAYS win.

Answer 4

I myself am 16, and i think what my peers need the most is not advice, but instead they need parents. Parents don't hand us a 30,000$ car, a 300$ cell phone, and tell us to go have fun. Parents call us every 2 hours to see who we're with and what were doing. Parents make sure they know their children's friends and parents also have to know when their child deserves privacy. I think too many of my peers do whatever they want because they lack structure in the home. It might just be my perspective, but i LIKE having my mom check in on me every so often. It shows that someone cares enough to know where i am and how i'm doing. It ticks me off, yeah, but i still LIKE it.

Back to the 30,000$ car thing...why in the HELL would you buy a16 year old a car? Much less and EXPANSIVE car!

If i could give teens advice it would be, slow down. Don't rush. You have your WHOLE life to do those things. Because sometimes teens think that they won't get to experience things in life if they don't do them RIGHT NOW! Which is not true...But anyways, thats what i would say.

Answer 5

Im sorry all teenagers are like that... its nature, hormones, and is how people develop and mature and learn social skills and its socil skills that are more important then acedemic skills.

Ie its not what you know but how you sell, persuade, manage others, handle office politics and realtioships.

If you wait its 1000% harder to form relationships and date as you are no longer allowed to be a rookie.

Its no good starting at work.

And in school everyone is at the same level and an abundant supply of the opposite sex who are going through the same things as you..

The advice is learn how to balance it all not do one and not the other.

Teenagers must be experts on all matters concenring sex and realtioships before they go further then a kiss.


Expert does not mean 1 lesson and being careful.

You never rely on playgorund gossip or your mates for answers but go to planned pregnancy or sexaul health clinics.


To ask your mates is like getting your grannie's advice of fixing computers and ipods etc.

In the army they have a phrase

first mistake last mistake.

ie one **** up you die.

Getting pregnant is like that if your dont have morning after pills or failing that abortion pills straight away.

Just like you dont wait till there is an accident or shipwreck to practice lifeboat drill. You practie it over and over again o when you use and need it you can walse through it.

Using condoms and sex is like that.

Take your time to develop... more fun that way too.

Ie if you get a snowboard you dont try cliff jumping in a week

Respect has naf all to do with being hard, in a gang or having a gun etc.


Respect is when you are weak, injured or down and people will go out of their way, get hurt even die to help you.

Not just your homies but strangers.

Ie End of the Movie Sparticus when the Roman are looking for him to crucify him... which takes days in agony and others are saying its me. Ill take his place.

People have to liem and look up to you not fear you.

If sparticuas had guns and a gang possie everyone would say hey romans its them... we will help make the cross

Answer 6

Kids are people. Some of them are good. Some of them are bad. Most of them have good and bad going on together.

As far as advice: I like Micah 6:8 as the secret of a sucessful life

He has shown thee, oh man, what is good and what doeth the Lord require of you, but to do justly and love mercy and walk humbly with thy God.

Answer 7

Don't take anything more seriously than it deserves. Nothing is the end of the world, everything before college is just practice.

Answer 8

Try to wait until your fully responsible to have sex, you'll end up like me.
Don't smoke
Be cool stay in school!
Take hugs... NOT DRUGS
Don't carry weapons.
Try to have a shopping budget. {Education costs $}
Don't drink under the age of 17.
Eh, that's all I got

Answer 9

You should just talk to your brother and sister. That's really the only thing you can do. If you have kids, the worst thing you can do is forbid them from doing something. It sounds cliche, but they really respond positively to something after you don't like it.

Answer 10

best piece of advice...

KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED AND YOUR MORALS HIGH!!!