Dear parents, guardians, protectors, tour guides, taxi drivers, benevolent dictators, internet providers, life givers, licence instructors, food production assistants, supervisors, fun destroyers, rule makers and adults who ‘just-don’t-understand’.
Firstly, you have a teenager . . . . my condolences.
Secondly, we need your help.
Your discussion of ideas and issues at home is essential when helping us to help your child. This said, I know as a parent myself that finding time to talk about stuff other than the day-to-days can be difficult. I know too that talking full-stop with our teenagers can be like the proverbial blood and stone.
So, this blog post is for you.
The questions I’d like you to reply to are these:
When teenagers say, to adults like you and I, “You don’t understand’, or (my favourite), ‘things were easier when you were a teenager’, what is your initial response? In what way would you explain being a teenager from the perspective of having been one yourself?
I am assuming for many of us, that the years of being a teenager were in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Write down the decade and then what it was like to be a teenager in this period of time. What pressures influences, ideas, problems, issues, inventions, discoveries, historical events, politics, effected you as a teenager?
Remember, your posts are public to the subscribers of this blog; putting your name is optional; we will be discussing responses in class.
I really appreciate your help with this. There will be more opportunities for you to become involved as the course progresses.
This homework is due by the end of this week please.
Regards
Phill Taylor
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