Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen. 'I'm afraid I have to agree with...
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.
I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.
I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
It's one of these juvenile therapy scams, he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper. They advertise help for your troubled teen by staring at the stars and...
Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we’re so ready for our rebellious phase we can’t help...
The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and bro...
When she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully...
... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...
Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that...
surprise it's better than promises
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy,...
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
I grab at Smitty and he at me, and, for one horrible, deperately embarrassing second we fly into each others arms like Shaggy and Scooby Don't.
I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.
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