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09 May 2018, 11:20 pm
10 May 2018, 2:56 am
lostonearth35 wrote:
I don't think it's a secret in my case. It doesn't help that I never was really a teenager myself. 
Western society, ironically because of its obsession with youth, hates teenagers, haven't you noticed?
People are always saying "You think your kids are bad now? Wait until they become teenagers."
Or, "If this is how you're like now, I hate to think what you're going to like as a teenager."
My own mother once had a sign in our basement rec room that said, "I don't need drugs. Having teenagers is as far from reality as I want to get".
But if you hate little kids, people think you're an evil, horrible person like Miss. Trunchbull from Mathilda. Kids can be completely cruel and evil while their parents are clueless and let them act like Chucky the doll. I once heard children don't even begin to develop a conscience until they're around 5. It seems like every commercial with little kids I see these days now has them acting like little demons while their parents make Homer Simpson look like Einstein, and it's supposed to be "cute". Am I missing something here?
Western society, ironically because of its obsession with youth, hates teenagers, haven't you noticed?
People are always saying "You think your kids are bad now? Wait until they become teenagers."
Or, "If this is how you're like now, I hate to think what you're going to like as a teenager."
My own mother once had a sign in our basement rec room that said, "I don't need drugs. Having teenagers is as far from reality as I want to get".
But if you hate little kids, people think you're an evil, horrible person like Miss. Trunchbull from Mathilda. Kids can be completely cruel and evil while their parents are clueless and let them act like Chucky the doll. I once heard children don't even begin to develop a conscience until they're around 5. It seems like every commercial with little kids I see these days now has them acting like little demons while their parents make Homer Simpson look like Einstein, and it's supposed to be "cute". Am I missing something here?
That's an interesting topic. There is a common misconception of "innocence" of children – all my expirience is rather about amorality of children. They have to learn ethics yet.
But teenage is a social construct not present in many cultures, esp. in the past. A child grew up to become young adult without a prolonged intermediate stage. And even if this stage of people biologically but not socially adult exists, it doesn't have to look the way it looks in the Anglo-Saxon societes.
In the society I live in, it's a time of intense education and preparations for adulthood. Even the working class people choose their ideas of career and prepare for it. Sure, there are experiments with alcohol and relationships, even more intense in one's twenties. But laughing at handicapped or doorbell pranks are for 10yo here, not teenagers.
Yes, that's my little hypothesis that the Anglo-Saxon culture is seriously worng about their way of handling teenagers.
10 May 2018, 3:12 am
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