Tuesday, November 11, 2008
stereotypical teens
Teenagers are stereotypically viewed as being routy kids who look for trouble. Although, I know no one who wants to be in danger. I think this is why parents don't allow us to certain things that arn't actually dangerous at all. For example, about 2 weekends ago I was planning on going to a concert in Milwaukee, WI to the Rave. My parents only would allow me to go if parents we're driving me there, and wouldn't allow my friend to drive me there. They thought the neighborhood was too "shady", which it was, but I found it unfair that I wasn't allowed to go b/c of who drove there. I thought my mom should understand that we would be fine driving there, even though we're teenagers, and teenagers are thought of as unorganized and bad drivers. I didn't really mind I wasn't going to the concert, but I found it to be a perfect example of regulations parents set on teens. If I was allowed to go, it would teach me how to react to certain situations on the road, and maybe about the neighborhood I was in, but except I wasn't allowed to mature in those ways. What the parents don't realize is that I'm probably going to be in multiple situations like that next year, when I'm in college, and they're not there to help me.
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I totally know what you mean! My parents do that too sometimes - they won't let me go to a concert because there won't be an adult driving. It's so annoying because it just assumes that we (teenagers) are too irresponsible to do something on our own. Instead of thinking about how mature my friends and I are, parents just focus on what everyone thinks: teens are irresponsible.
My do that too. Parents need to stop steryotyping teens, its not fair they don't even have reasons to judge.
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