Advice You Would Give to Teenagers

Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
16) You are not wasting your time watching all those Californian teen dramas.

17) being a rent boy isn't all bad.

"When I was 14 my father was so ignorant, I could scarely stand to have the old man around. But when I reached 21 I was astonished at how much he had learned in the meantime." --Twain

Live and let live.

2) Life is too short for jealousy or vanity.

3)if a job is worth doing get someone else to do it.

21) Once you've found the right person restrain yourselves from planning your wedding before you've had a meaningful courtship in order to learn the best and worst about each other first; if you're both still deeply in love, tie the knot.

Today, I fiercely told a couple of pre-teens to get out of the drainage pipes...it wasn't exactly advice...more like the 11th commandment...

Does that count?

Originally posted by redbadger
10) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Pls do not advise that to today's teenagers, as they would likely misinterpret it as meaning something else. 😞

-m.

9) If you don't like the music that I like then, frankly, the problem is with you and not with me.

10) Don't tell the people at school that I cuffed you round the ear. Those teacher types always have agendas. I don't want to have to make you out to be the liar.

11) Look. There's no need to tell your mother what you saw. You'll understand when you're older. And I will own you one.

- Do anything you want as long as it not distressed anyone.
- Never get angry smile to it instead.

12) Do all the drugs you can and want while you're young. Aging junkies are pathetic.

Originally posted by moonbus
"When I was 14 my father was so ignorant, I could scarely stand to have the old man around. But when I reached 21 I was astonished at how much he had learned in the meantime." --Twain

Similarly, I decided when I was 16 that I knew more than my parents. Now that I am considerably older than that, I never presume to give teenagers any advice because I know it may cause them to just do the opposite.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Similarly, I decided when I was 16 that I knew more than my parents. Now that I am considerably older than that, I never presume to give teenagers any advice because I know it may cause them to just do the opposite.

You can see them mentally rolling their eyes. They have to learn for themselves, they have to make their own mistakes, adults just telling them stuff just goes in one head and out the other....