quotations about teenagers
I happen to love teenagers. Both the ones I've worked with for years and, most of the time, my own. I know, I know. I thought I was supposed to loathe them too. It's confusing. But, my dirty little secret is that I don't. Dare I say, I kind of think they rule? This might have something to do with the fact that I will forever see myself as 17. Why? I don't know. But, I relate to teenagers even though I was supposed to get older and lose touch with their struggles and awesomeness and find them lazy and entitled little s***s like the cliché of middle-aged parents who lament how rotten kids are today.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
The problem with teenagers is they are much more in the moment and not as forward thinking as we get to be as adults.
DREW PATE
"Social media and the mental health of your teen", Circleville Herald, June 13, 2017
Let's face it, teenagers are weird creatures. I like to call them "pre-people." Yes, teenhood is usually a temporary plight, but boy can those rascals inflict a lot of misery on us parents during a few short years.
JOHN D. CRESSLER
Reinventing Teenagers
For parents who want to know what their teenagers are really thinking about, I would suggest talking to their friends. You can do this by inviting them over to your place for a meal, or giving them a lift home after school. Making small talk (and not an interrogation) with their friends helps parents know their teenagers better, avoiding any misunderstanding that may arise.
ALICE LEE
Building Bridges With Your Teenagers
I think the world would be a happier place if we all accepted that teenagers collectively are the closest to awesome of any age group on the planet.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
Teenagers don't think as much as they feel. The connection between the thinking brain and the feeling brain is still developing, which is why when parents ask, "What in the hell were you thinking?!" they truly cannot explain their actions.
ERIN SMITH
"This too shall pass, I hope", Winchester Sun, June 12, 2017
Now, when it comes to teenagers, this flipping one's lid is often seen as being a "crazy teenager." But let's make an agreement not to call this crazy; let's call it what it is--remodeling and shifts in integration. In a construction site, sometimes the previously working plumbing and electricity are temporarily disabled. We don't have to call that a faulty building--it's just a reconstruction project. Remodeling has its inevitable downsides, for sure. For a short time, or for bursts of time, those utilities on the construction site are offline. No effective electricity, no plumbing, no workable staircase. These are all temporary shifts in what works well. The good news is that remodeling is a process that will create new and improved ways of functioning. Remodeling is necessary to adapt the structure of our neural foundation to adjust to new needs, and remodeling in adolescence is necessary to adapt our human family to the new needs of a changing world. New levels of integration are being created and new capacities are being established and strengthened.
DANIEL J. SIEGEL
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Teenagers, especially boys looking to display their muscles, come in handy for rearranging furniture and carrying groceries. Just don't ask me why they're too weak to pick up dirty clothes off the floor.
K. C. PROCTER
"14 Reasons Not To Dread The Teenage Years", Scary Mommy, August 26, 2016
I tell you, it's a brand-new world, it's as radical as having an infant. And I'm as clueless. And it turns out there are no operating instructions and no owner's manual that come with a teenager either.
ANNE LAMOTT
interview, beliefnet
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
STEPHENIE MEYER
The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide
Being a teenager is no easy existence, that much I remember. Pimples, self-absorption, and every thought about her over there unless it is about her over there or her over there.
RICHARD PUGH
"WRITE TEAM: You can only know about the present", My Web Times, June 13, 2017
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Bringing home your first kid from the hospital is intimidating enough. Facing the prospect of your kid eventually becoming a teenager can freeze you with fear, especially since you can remember when you were a teenager.
K. C. PROCTER
"14 Reasons Not To Dread The Teenage Years", Scary Mommy, August 26, 2016
I have to defend teenagers because, yes, they are teenagers and that does allow for a certain amount of lacking in life lessons and an overconfident sense they know everything, but really the only reason people beat up on them is they are super, mega jealous. They see their youth, exuberance, and laid back outlook about their future and all the Range Rovers and Rogaine in the world can't give them another crack at how totally awesome it would be to be young and clueless with it all ahead of you.
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
The more I think about it, teens are just like stubborn, know-it-all 3-year-olds, only they have a driver's license and a sex drive and what could be more terrifying than that?
M. BLAZONED
"The Beautiful Maddening Contradiction of Teenagers", Huffington Post, January 31, 2017
We can all agree teenagers are a different species. They sleep forever, never stop eating and know way more about current events than adults credit them for. And, of course, their lives would come to a horrific end should anything happen to their phones.
DEREK MCNAUGHTON
"Some of these factors are unavoidable, but others are a simple matter of slowing down and using common sense", Driving, November 9, 2016
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
Homeschool doesn't give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It just gives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone's lame Facebook joke.
KIM CULBERTSON
The Liberation of Max McTrue
Teenagers are already self-conscious and vulnerable to what others say. They may start comparing their lives to those of people on social media. They may misconstrue comments people make on social media as directed at them when they are not. The social cues such as tone or facial expressions are not visible like they are in a live interaction, making it easier for teens to misinterpret what someone says.
ANDREA K. MCDANIELS
"Social media and the mental health of your teen", Circleville Herald, June 13, 2017
Today's teenagers are growing up at a time where everything generations before us took for granted-- clean air, potable water, and life as we know it-- are on the verge of destruction.
JAMIE MARGOLIN
"While President Trump withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement, teenagers like myself are fighting the climate crisis head-on", West Seattle Herald, June 4, 2017