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Feb 24, 2004 2:58:35 GMT -5
Post by Arago on Feb 24, 2004 2:58:35 GMT -5
well, i didn't really know where to put this so i put it here, ok, who has had a conversation with their parents and how they say that life as a teen is easier than ever before, especially when they were teens? I have, actually jsut did, now sure, we dont know what life was like back when they were in high school, it was most likely tough too, but they automatically think that it was tougher than life now.....how do they know when they aren't in the high schools with us, they don't know what we are going through, and then they start to misunderstand us when we say that things have changed in school and its tougher, and think we are saying they had it easy and we are smarter than them, now easier for them, its possible, but smarter? where did that come from? my dad was the one i was fighting with, and he was saying "you know what, when i was your age i was out on the farm haying etc. and still got straight A's" (he really did get them and worked) "so don't complain that life is hard, i could most likely go into your classrooms now and teach the lesson like nothing, you kids have it so easy, you don't have to work, you just live with your parents and take their money etc. you don't know what the REAL world is like" i bet most of you have heard stuff like that before right? but i have a big problem with that REAL world stuff.... high school is the real world, why wouldn't it be? what some of us don't got jobs? do you need a job to be in the real world? what is the real world? (whoa matrix sounding now) but in high school etc. we face challenges every day in life, we have decisions, everything that you have to do outside of school life, but sometimes without the job. now back to what parents say, they say stuff like oh you don't have to work now etc. well guess what, some kids do have to work, they have to get into the REAL world in grade 10 or sooner, but do parents think about them as adults? no, they think of them as stupid teens who don't know what they're are doing, even though the parents themselves may have done the same thing. sure quitting school and getting job ain't the best idea, but some kids are forced to do that. hell, i didn't realize how much ive typed, but hopefully you know what im talking about, and of course this doesn't apply to all parents, but some. so tell me what you think, am i just going crazy or do i got a point that is shared by other ppl?
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Feb 24, 2004 3:27:35 GMT -5
Post by MrMeowMeow on Feb 24, 2004 3:27:35 GMT -5
geez, teenagers these days, always typing so much i have heard one or two mentions about how life was back in the day, but i don't make much of it. but if you think about it, it was different, but still the same. i mean, kids back then had pressures back then like us. but it has become easier for kids to give into things like drugs, because it's becoming socially acceptable and its considered somewhat "normal" to do shit. back then only the coolest of the cool smoked, wore leather jackets etc etc. like the fonz so in that sense, i would say some get it easier, but for the kids who don't do drugs its about the same. and about the high school being the real world, i would say HS is a miniture version of society. once you get into the so called "real world" everything multiplies. some things get harder, the people get even stupider and more of them appear. people apparently enter this real world once you get a job and get out of school or something. but like i kinda said, its just more of the same on a larger scale. some parents do seem to think that kids are not as knowledgeable because they haven't had the life experiences they have had. but with the internet, which wasn't apparent when your parents were teens, its getting easier to grasp knowledge, but they forget about that. i think in about 99.9999999999% of cases, child and parent will not see eye to eye about most subjects. but you do carry some of your parents trade. my parents want me to become a doctor or neurosurgeon or something crazy like that, but i'm not into that stuff. i understand they want the best for me and to be rolling in the cash, but i don't necessarily want that. i love computers and art, and they have trouble understanding that. apparently it's a necessity for me to go to university and make billions, but i would be fine with a mediocore salary if i do something i enjoy rather that lots of money with a boring job. also, another subject which my parents don't understand. me and my brothers play quite a bit of videogames, and they're always like "get off the computer go read a dictionary" or something like that. but i find it fun, but they want me to get prepped for the "real world" i suppose. i just want to say is that remember, your parents don't know what they're doing. they are learning how to be parents as they go along, much like you.
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Feb 24, 2004 3:52:35 GMT -5
Post by Arago on Feb 24, 2004 3:52:35 GMT -5
well, you wanted me to reply, here is a reply
ok, you about 1/3 were tlaking about what i was talking about, the rest about other stuff about parents, thats ok, im sorta confused on what you feel on the subject.
now i wrote that since i was angry after my little fight, wasnt mcuh of one, but little one, and you know, yah i see your point alex on how they had some of the same things then etc. i mentioned that in there too saying that it was probably tough for them too, we don't know etc. but i look at now and look at then, media and all that how ppl say it influences us etc. makes life a lot tougher, back then they didn't have all that media crap, well not as much influence by them etc. ( i think)
but mainly, its about how some parents think we have it completely easy if we don't work while in school, for some it is, but for example, me, i realize that the courses i just chose for grade 11 will affect my life greatly, they choose what career im going into, sure i can change it, but its sorta a path a chose, thats stressful, now back then, their university requirements etc weren't as tough as it is now, im stressed out about the language 11 crap etc. and then there are those provincial exams! they may have had them when they were in HS, but back then, teachers most likley taught by the book (i think, since well books come out, they all adjusting to it etc. they go by teacher books etc. they all do same things) which means that the exam will have the things they covered etc. but now, well thats different, teacher teach what they want to teach etc. and provincial choses what they want to put on the test, they don't know what the teachers have taught us
thats the education point, now looks etc. that is self explanitory, back then, looks weren't as big as they are now, in capp you learn about that etc. so no need to talk about that, sure looks had importance, but not as much nowadays
peer pressure i beleive is more now, cause back then, you didn't really have much to compare to, everyone went with the flow, not all those music genres to like or dislike, close, not big diff in clothes, but nowadays, tons of htings to decide from and you gotta make right decision sometimes to fit in etc.
drugs etc. well its sorta the same thing, i dunno about back then, but i think it was mainly alcohol back then, now, we got a lot of drugs etc. and peer pressure sometimes makes people use them, or even pressure it self like stress from school, home, friends etc.
well, i gotta get to bed now, and you know on all of this, i could be totally wrong on the parents teen times, i never have been there, its the same situation the parents are in with us, this is my opinion, parents have theirs, the battle between us will i geuss never really end, just the way it is unless we figure out what it was like back then or they figure out what its like being a teen now. and yes i trying meow's tech of long posts with paragraphs
but as i said before, i am ignorant on the topic of the parents lives while teens so i sorta can't really talk about it, but well i a teen now, and so are you ppls, give out your opinions
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Feb 24, 2004 4:16:58 GMT -5
Post by MrMeowMeow on Feb 24, 2004 4:16:58 GMT -5
you're wrong about the peer pressure thing. it was a big deal for some kids to drink/smoke like it is nowadays.
and it was highschool man, you actually think everyone got along? there were crowds like nowadays. meaning they had different styles and all that
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Feb 24, 2004 11:41:04 GMT -5
Post by Arago on Feb 24, 2004 11:41:04 GMT -5
i know, i never said they didn't have different crowds etc. i just said that now it seems like its worse and more different crowds etc. and also the alcohol thing etc. it may have been tough for some, but my dad himself a straight A student, he tells me stories of how he and his buddies drunk while in the breaks of school and still went to school etc. back then it seemed like everybody drank and smoke, you gotta admit that alex, i don't blame them for doing it, and if i am right, i think they did it since it was sorta a new thing, everyone wanted to try them out etc. but out of all of this i am not saying that nowadays its tougher than what they went through, i just wish parents would know that its tougher than they think, some aspects of nowadays may be tougher than back then, and some may be easier now than then, but i don't know, they don't know, but usually they automatically think we have it easier
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Feb 24, 2004 23:04:35 GMT -5
Post by SPN on Feb 24, 2004 23:04:35 GMT -5
man ive heard this way too much in my life, parents going on about how hard it is in the "real" world, oh man it must be so hard to figure out where to put all that money your making, i mean come on, work aint much diffrent from work, you have to do what people tell you and if you dont your in trouble, only in a job you get money.. something we should get for school at this point, i mean we do what they do now a days, i bet my parents ddint know you could make a speaker out of a container, or writen/directed a play anytime soon and have to preform it infront of people.. so no matter how mch we all bitch and complain, this battle will go on till the end of time.... or something like that..
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