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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
You have teenagers thinking they’re going to make millions as NBA stars when that’s not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.