Re: Teenagers

Jim: I absolutely agree with you...those teenage years are rough...poor
kids...there is no amount of anything on this earth that could ever
convince me to go back to being a teenager/young adult...I think from
13-23 have to be some of the toughest years of a person's life with all
the growing pains that go with it...that figuring out who you are crap
is hard work and comes with lots of insults/injuries and huge potential
for really messing things up in a big way that could take years to sort
through...even a lifetime. And there are way more demands on many kids'
time today...the way to a better future for themselves is paved with
stiff competition and they know it, hence the need for good grades,
appropriate involvement in extracurricular activities/sports, girl/boy
scouts/4-H like groups, church, music lessons, jobs...all in the name of
achieving what prospective colleges might deem a "well-rounded" student.
Not to mention all that is expected of them on the home/family/friends
front. Whew! And then when you throw in the free access to drugs,
alcohol, cigarettes, pornography, violence, sex, etc that is so
prevalent in the world today...ugh! I pray daily that my children will
come through those years ahead of us with as few battle scars as
possible.


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Sun 02/08, james singer < jsinger@igc.org > wrote:
From: james singer [mailto: jsinger@igc.org]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 17:28:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Teenagers

Must be hell being a teenager today. Seriously. The whole bloody
<br>society is driven by the teenage market. Every conceivable
commercial <br>scam panders to their underdeveloped understanding of the
world and <br>reinforces their herd-like tastes in the tasteless. And
they all seem <br>to have access to way more money--and I mean in a
relative sense, <br>inflation adjusted and all that--than previous
generations but with <br>less guidance on how to squander it.<br><br>It
is also the biologic time when most of us begin defining our adult
<br>selves. We are old enough to breed, and frequently do, but not well
<br>enough educated to know why we want to breed or to understand the
<br>consequences of breeding [funny, I think, aside--when I was in
<br>highschool, acne was popularly associated with abstinence]. Except
farm <br>kids; in my experience, farm kids always clearly understood the
purpose <br>of breeding.<br><br><br>On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at
04:57 PM, Pamela J. Evans wrote:<br><br>> Someone sent me an e-mail at
work the other day which read something<br>> like "Teenagers serve as a
reminder as to why some animals eat their<br>> young".<br>><br>> I
thought that was a tad strong. Maybe not.<br>> Glad I dodged that bullet
regardless.<br>><br>><br>> ---------- Original Message
----------------------------------<br>> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com<br>>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:49:44
EST<br>><br>>> In a message dated 02/08/2004 2:45:14 PM Eastern Standard
Time,<br>>> jesserenebell@hotmail.com writes:<br>>><br>>>> You're
supposed to<br>>>> "gradually grow into the teen years". Well, I didn't
get to do <br>>>> that. They<br>>>> were awful.<br>>><br>>> Some years
ago a friend and I were in the Bloomingdale's baby <br>>>
department<br>>> shopping for a gift for a third friend. As we oohed and
aahed over <br>>> the darling<br>>> baby things, a rather hard-bitten
middle-aged salesclerk said <br>>> "Ladies, just<br>>> remember they
grow up to be TEENAGERS!"<br>>><br>>> -------------

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