Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Teens of Today
In today's blog, I will be discussing issues in Teens. This generation of teens have changed since I become an adult. The language and writing styles the teens are using are crazy. I feel that as adult putting time in for their children more can help a lot. I have seen so many different characters from teenagers. For example typing 3 for E's. Has anybody ever heard of that? It is ridiculous. I remember growing up, my parents always emphasized the importance of any education. School was a priority to me and it still is. I knew what it meant if I did not attend classes. I feel that as a hard working adult it is kind of hard to give 100% attention to a teenager. I feel the importance of a mother and a father to be in a child's life. Does anybody have any incite or an opinion to give on this topic of our youth?
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I come from the "other side" perspective of raising children through teens to adulthood, since all my children are now adults, two of them now dealing with all the challenges of parenting. I have never heard of "typing 3 for E's," but am very curious, with my imagination running wild. The language and writing styles driven by technology seem crazy to us who are still learning to text efficiently on our cell phones. I suppose my parents felt like rock & roll was crazy.
ReplyDeleteI was a divorced single mother by the time my oldest daughter left for college and the remainder were either teens or pre-teens (4 of them). I worked full time and sometimes added a second job to get by. It is impossible for a single mother to give 100% under these circumstances, which are far too prevalent in the world today. However, despite all the hard times and mistakes I made through these tough years, we all made it by faith and grace (a lot of grace). . . because at times faith was very dim. My teens walked a very thin line at times . . . finding their way through the jungle. They are strong adults though. . . certainly wiser for their age than I was at their age. I always emphasized education and never gave up on any of my kids. Three out of five have college degrees and out of the other two, one is in college now as an adult single mother and the other has a great job and lives in Hawaii where he wanted to be. I am proud of all of them.
It is tough being a teen today.
I watched my son (almost 30) and his friends play scrabble by cell phone and wondered why they did not just get together and play the old fashioned way . . . but we live in this technologically disconnected world.