The teenage problem « Life is grand

The teenage problem

When young people exit the education system and are dumped into the real world, which is not the world of Britney Spears, they have no idea what’s going on and have to spend considerable time figuring it out.

Effectively we invented adolescene, the teenage years, over the past 100 years to safe-guard our children against threats which are increasingly non-existant in the first world; mainly factory labour.

I don’t have children yet but being still young I remember my teenage years and some of the strange notions parents had. Change as the interviewee suggests won’t happen fast, and probably shouldn’t. But some of the ideas are sound. The problem is irrational fears will dictate the change, many parents will have a knee-jerk reaction to the proposals.

Interesting all the same.

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