#teens

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[thatbadadvice]

Help! Am I responsible for teaching my children how to act in public??????

Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 April 2024:

Dear Carolyn: On a recent vacation, our family (including two teenagers) was at a restaurant for lunch. We had not had any food yet when I noticed dried food on my water glass. After the server brought our ordered drinks, I calmly noted the food on my glass and asked for a clean one. No drama, and the server was a pro — no hesitation, brought a new glass and comped us a bottle of water. The hiccup? My teenagers were appalled and embarrassed, basically implying I’m a Karen for first failing to just live with the dirty glass and second not apologizing profusely before asking for a clean one. I tried to explain that part of being served includes clean everything, but they were unpersuaded. Did I miss something? Is this a generational thing? Literally made no fuss at all and did not suggest anything be comped. But I’m feeling defensive. How to communicate that it’s okay to politely ask for corrections when things are amiss? — Anonymous

Dear Anonymous —

This is a generational thing and there's nothing you as a parent can do to improve your children's behavior now, nor was there anything you ever could have done to shape the way they act in the world, their understanding of social norms, their expectations, or how they treat other people.

Kids turn out the way they are because of the generation they were born into, which doesn't have anything to do with the people who raised them or who created the society they live in.

Take heart: you're one of many millions of parents of Gen Z-ers whose offspring are just really into drinking out of dirty glasses. We'll never know why. It's one of the great mysteries of our time, but the good news is that this isn't your problem. There's absolutely no way to teach this particular generation of young people how to order food at restaurants, and even if there were, it wouldn't be on you as their parent to do it. Kids these days just love filthy dishware.

#parenting #advice #bad advice #teens #mortified #carolyn hax #dining #dining etiquette #manners #restaurants

[belzebubsofficial]

Hopping back to class.

#belzebubs #trve kvlt #black metal #jp ahonen #chrono #webcomics #comic #romance #teens #biology #class

[picknmixsims]

Sneak Out Loot

Sneak Out Loot

Teens who sneak out and don't get caught have a small chance of returning with a random object, for example, a garden gnome or flamingo.

Loot items are configurable and can include anything that can be placed into the teen's inventory.

#download #gameplay #sneak out #loot #teens #simblr #ts2 #sims 2 #the sims 2

[rapeculturerealities]

Florida students athletes may need to prove they can menstruate

The Florida High School Athletics Association’s (FHSAA) sports medicine advisory committee has stood by its recommendation to require high school athletes to submit information about their periods for each year they register to participate. 

The move comes after a suggestion that the association’s board adopt a national sports registration form – which makes menstrual information mandatory. 

Questions listed on the form include asking if players have had a period, when they first got their period, the date of their most recent one was and the regularity of their cycle during the previous 12 months. 

Notably, the main difference between the national form and Florida’s system, as the Palm Beach Post reports, is where the information is stored. 

The national form states that the part detailing athletes’ medical history – including their menstrual history – should not be turned into schools but remain with their physician. 

However, the FHSAA’s sports medicine committee recommended that all pages of the form be handed over to their schools.

#Florida #Teens #Sports #Menstruation #Transphobia

[his-heart-hymns]

Find someone who will look at you like Flynn Rider.

Find someone who will hug you life Rupanzel.

#watching this movie for 526282736th time #tangled #Disney movie #rupanzel #flynn rider #dark academia #light aacademia #teens #love #romance #soft cnc #soft academia #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi aesthetic #desi academia #urdu lines #urdu poetry #urdu literature #urdu shayari #urdu aesthetic #urdu stuff #memes #meme of the week #life quotes #literry quotes

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Around 1939 or '40 there was this lovely, ample-bosomed blonde girl who was my older brother's girlfriend. Her name was Natalie. She lived across the little side street on which we played stickball. The room that held my piano, my studio, if you will, faced her windows. We were up on the fifth floor, and Natalie was across the street on the second floor. There were a number of times in the summer when Ray, my brother, threw open the window, sat on the sill with his leg up, and Natalie would be like Juliet, except she was below, not above, at her window. The two would gaze and gesture to one another. It was quite a distance from the fifth floor to the second floor across the street, and, you know, with kids in between playing stickball, it wasn't quite the situation where they could converse. So they developed a kind of sign language. One afternoon, Ray must've been in the throes of some great wave of passion. He sat me down, literally grabbed me by the arm, and put me on the piano bench. He knew that I could play the piano version of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. He pointed to the music and said, "Play!" Then he went and sat on the sill while I played as loudly as I could, with the appropriate feeling. I played this love music while my brother sat on the sill making these great swooping gestures as if he were sending the music out the window down across the street to Natalie's window. I was twelve or thirteen and Ray was close to eighteen at the time. I felt like Cyrano de Bergerac. A musical Cyrano de Bergerac.

     —Leon Fleisher, in Just Kids from the Bronx by Arlene Alda (ed.)

Photo: The Bronx, 1939, by Sid Grossman via MCNY

#vintage New York #1930s #Sid Grossman #Leon Fleisher #Bronx #romance #teens #teenage romance #pianists #clotheslines #urban life #vintage Bronx #memories

[tmtquickcomics]

"This Shirt is Barbs"

Drew young Fizz wearing this shirt in my Measurements comic, and decided to make this.

Barb understood the assignment

#helluva boss #fan art #mini comic #fan comic #This Shirt is Barbs #fizzarolli #blitzo #barbie wire #teens #barb #tmtremaine

[swoleisthegoal]

Ripped Up Gun Shows

#jock #muscular #gym motivation #bodybuilder #teen bodybuilders #teens #teen muscle #selfie #flexing biceps #bodybuilders #masculino #masculinity #biceps #himbo #lean muscle #hombres #muscle men #testosterone #ripped

[belzebubsofficial]

Being a teenager is hard.

This was originally published as an eight panel version in the newspaper, but I couldn’t help adding the bonus panel for the online version. 😅 Thanks so much to everyone who’s already grabbed their belzeplushies from Makeship, your support means the world to us! This is also a kind reminder that the plushies are available for seven more days, no more, so please check out makeship.com/shop/creator/belzebubs, if you're still interested in getting one. Thank you! 🤘

#belzebubs #trve kvlt #black metal #jp ahonen #chrono #webcomics #comic #kids #parenting #teens #growing pains #this is not even my final form #plushie #makeship

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Art of my dreams. I was incorporeal and watching a bunch of teens mess around as they prepared to ride a not-very-well maintained roller coaster, and I knew that it would malfunction and one of them would be killed violently. The dream cut away before it happened, but I knew it had already taken place.

by: @mkcomics​

#dream #February 26th 2023 #wow submitter that looks amazing #art #mkcomics #mk comics #incorporeal #teens #teen #roller coaster #death tw #nightmare #horror

[vintage-sweden]

Leg wrestling, Sweden.

#vintage photos #teens #girls