A friend said something that stuck with me for years. I’ve always thought of tweens as the “good” generation, but now I understand the irony that it’s the opposite. As I grew up, I was the bad one, the “average” teen.
It was a long time ago, but there have been times where I felt like I had been the average teen for so long that I had no one to blame for my actions. I often wonder if it was a bit too much to ask for my parents to just let me be my natural self, but I suppose being an adult is a little bit more challenging.
I used to try to talk my parents into letting me be the typical teen, but they were not always open to that. I think they were afraid that the pressure of having to make a living somehow made me more like my brothers, and that I’d grow up to be a bad person and an adult.
I’ve heard it said that you can’t fully be yourself unless your parents are completely supportive of it. And I agree, I don’t think being an adult is as easy as I thought it was. I don’t think it’s easy to just be a normal, mature person.
My parents, being older than I was when I was born, would expect me to be a normal, mature, responsible, responsible adult. They would have hoped that I would grow up to be my brother. In reality, I just have to continue to be myself, and that means I just have to continue to change.
I think this is probably one of the reasons that I am always angry at my parents. They are not supportive of my feelings, so I feel like I cant be myself.
I think part of the reason I have had such a difficult time since I became an adult is because, at 18 I was still in high school. You see, I’m not stupid. I know that my parents are wrong, so it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that I’m not stupid. At least not to myself.
I can’t imagine how frustrating it must feel to be a tween, and especially one who can’t act your age. While we’re at it, I’m also not entirely sure how to act my age. I was like, “OK!” when I was younger, but now that I’m an adult it seems like I have to just be myself.
Im not being mean here. Its just that I tend to think that tweens are generally more immature and less mature than older teens. When I was in middle school it was pretty normal for me to be a total dork, but when I turned 16 I started to think I had to be more mature and more responsible. Being a tween is hard because you have no say in how you act.
I remember when I was 15 I went to my first college orientation, and one of the things I was asked to do was write a rap song. I was more than happy to go and play in the DJ booth, but I was nervous because I had never written a rap song. I made up a story about how my parents had to drag me to school because the school was trying to kick me out for having too many friends.
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