Comments on: Life drives teens insane http://www.thepanthersprey.com/opinions/2010/03/05/life-drives-teens-insane/ The School Newspaper of Bartlett High School Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:24:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jake http://www.thepanthersprey.com/opinions/2010/03/05/life-drives-teens-insane/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Jake Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:48:46 +0000 http://www.thepanthersprey.com/?p=1652#comment-455 "Teens get sick of hearing adults go on and on about how hard their lives were growing up. Just because we have advanced technology that crashes from time to time, cell phones that constantly lose service, and cars instead of horses, most adults are convinced that our lives are carefree. However, they could not be more wrong." - Parents are right, most of what we do is carefree, we don't have any major obligations to attened to, if you look around school you'll find teens texting than anything else. "So, before parents say that teenagers take everything for granted and that our lives are “easy,” maybe they should try going a day in a teenager’s shoes. It would not take long before they realize what we really have to deal with on a daily basis." - Well, they already have. They were once teenagers, they went to high school too. "In a way our lives are not necessarily easier: our lives are just different and a bit more advanced." - How advanced? I'm sure texting or working on a computer doensn't require much skill. “Teens get sick of hearing adults go on and on about how hard their lives were growing up. Just because we have advanced technology that crashes from time to time, cell phones that constantly lose service, and cars instead of horses, most adults are convinced that our lives are carefree. However, they could not be more wrong.”

- Parents are right, most of what we do is carefree, we don’t have any major obligations to attened to, if you look around school you’ll find teens texting than anything else.

“So, before parents say that teenagers take everything for granted and that our lives are “easy,” maybe they should try going a day in a teenager’s shoes. It would not take long before they realize what we really have to deal with on a daily basis.”

- Well, they already have. They were once teenagers, they went to high school too.

“In a way our lives are not necessarily easier: our lives are just different and a bit more advanced.”

- How advanced? I’m sure texting or working on a computer doensn’t require much skill.

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