just give it a break!

Adults always nag on us teenagers, it’s like we are the worst thing in society. Yes some things teenagers do are unacceptable but adults generally do it as well, or they did when they were teenagers. For example drinking, (I don’t drink) adults are always saying how horrible teenagers are because they get drunk all the time. Well I hear stories all the time about adults getting drunk when they were teenagers. Society hasn’t changed that much, just the way people see it.

Adults are always saying that we are so far off track with communication because we text, IM, tweet, Facebook, Instagram, etc. It is true we don’t always have a face to face conversation but texting is what we have to talk to people if they grew up with a cell phone, nothing would be different. Granit, it is ridiculous that there are 9 year olds with cell phones, in my opinion you don’t need a phone until you’re in 7^th grade. Mostly because that is when you start to be on your own more. To adults it is the worst thing ever to be texting someone. When it really isn’t that bad. We’re still communicating with people, it’s just in a new way.

Adults ALWAYS think they know us. I mean all the time they say “no I know you were thinking this” “I know you were gonna do this” etc. It’s like COME ON! Give me a break!!! You do NOT know what I was thinking or going to do. Just because you’re an adult doesn’t always make you so much smarter and better. We are allowed to have our own thought and actions so try and say you know exactly what we were gonna do or say.

Overall just stop assuming you know everything there is to a teenage life, were going to through a lot. For example, puberty is changing us, the insecurities we have, peer pressure, the fact that it always has to “be a certain way”. If adults stopped assuming everything about teenagers, things would be different.

All I’m trying to say is give us a break, stop thinking teenagers are so bad, yes we make stupid decisions but mostly we’re just trying to figure out who we are. The more you tell us not to something the more we want to do it. Next time look at the situation differently don’t pick a fight with a teenager because they are a teenager, learn to pick the battles that matter, for example at my homecoming last week the teachers tried kicking everyone out that was grinding, is it really that big of a deal because if you kick us out of a school event most of us will just go party somewhere else where we will be influenced to drink and smoke, would you rather that? Or simply us dancing?

Just give us a break.

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