Teenagers These Days

My question is why do the adults these days think that there must be something wrong with the teenage generation now?

Usually, you will most likely see an adult say “What has happened to the kids nowadays.” They think that we have all changed for the worst. To them, we are so different to how they were back when they were our age. I think that the older people think that everything we do is wrong. Apparently to them, every aspect of what we do and how we behave is not right.

For example, our dating habits. In most cases, parents will not let their children start dating until they reach a certain age and some parents will not let their kids date at all. Most parents think that it is wrong and they just begin to imagine the worst of young couples even if they are not doing anything wrong. I guess that back in the day, kids used to be lonely since dating is so ‘wrong’.

Another example is the way our styles have changed over the years. You can say that our way of dressing has evolved so much from the past generations. Nowadays, for the females, its all about the skinny jeans and tank tops. For the guys, you will also see some rockin’ the skinny jeans or baggy jeans. For some unexplainable reason, adults do not like this. For the girls, they always say that “They shouldn’t be dressing like that,” and for the guys, it’s mostly always, “They should pull their pants up.” They will always have something to say about this and I don’t even know the reason behind their judgment.

Finally, our vocabulary is not really the best out there. I have seen on a regular basis where kids do not know how to complete a sentence without including a cuss word somewhere in there. On rare occasion, you can witness this sort of behavior occurring around an adult and if it does happen, they automatically get mad for our ‘bad mouth’.

Although our new generation of kids have changed a lot throughout the years, I do not think that we do anything wrong. In my defense, everyone used to be a teenager at one time or another. They should know that we just want to have fun and enjoy what is left of our teenage years before we become old like the adults. In some crazy way, the adults have to understand that time has changed and they should let kids live freely without any judgment for how we do things in our time.