Being A Teenager…
Many adults don’t remember how hard it is to be a teenager. People (especially older ones!) tend to assume the worst of you, just by looking at you. I would like to illustrate this statement with a story; something that happened to me yesterday.
I took three of my sisters to play at a park that is not far from my house. At the park, the six-year-old, Jessi, and the three-year-old, Leesha, decided that they wanted to go play on the curly slide. I sat down on the grass to play with the baby, ‘Kelli, who is not quite one yet. As I was playing with the baby, two older women sat down on a bench, close to us. They began to talk and then spotted me. One of the women turned to the other and commented, “Look how irresponsible teenagers are these days. It’s despicable that a girl that young should have a child. In my day, that would never have happened.”
These comments really upset me. Look what people automatically assume when they see a teenager with a baby (I was talking to a friend of mine who mentioned that the same thing has happened to her, a couple of times). Are we teenagers in general “so irresponsible” that when a teen is seen baby-sitting, the assumption is that it is their baby? A decade or even a couple of years ago, people would have just assumed that the teen was baby-sitting.
So please do me a favor if you are reading this blog, don’t judge someone before you know the full story; things aren’t always as they seem.
Peace Out 
EDIT: I would like to post something that I found copied onto someone’s profile on FanFiction.Net.
“If you are a virgin and are planning on remaining a virgin until after marriage, post this into your profile.”
Please take this and post it onto your profile if you are a teen and feel the same way.
Thanks. 
Wow, that is horrible. It’s terrible that people have to assume such things, especially when you’re doing something good, such as babysitting.
I get a lot of reactions from people just from being young, particularly when I’m out exploring while my mom is shopping. I’ve noticed that when she’s not with me people aren’t half as willing to help me with something, and tend to give me dirty looks for no reason. I guess they assume that I’m just like every other teenager with raging hormones and 20 boyfriends to my name. When I say I’ve never dated, people look at me like I’m psychotic. And to me it’s just sad. I feel like a lot of people aren’t willing to listen to me because of the reputations teens seem to have, especially at college. I suppose they think I’m supposed to be out partying and drinking and carrying on, but to me that is all just a tremendous waste of time.
To me though, if someone is going to judge me up front like that, thinking a bunch of ridiculous things, they certainly aren’t worth anybody’s time.
I know what you mean, I get that all of the time. I’ve never dated either and when I say that, no one believes me. I really want to get the world out that teens can be responsible and CAN contribute to society in general (some [particularly older] people think that ‘teenager’ is synonymous for irresponsible and rude).
Thanks so much for posting, I am going to try to post at least twice per week. It’s great to get feedback, so I really appreciate you taking the time to comment on my blog.
Peace Out