I think it's unfair for teens to just be expected to turn into adults in a day. In my house my mom gives me responsibilities such as doing everyones laundry when she can't, the dishes and cleaning. My mom doesn't come home until around 6 or 7 at night and my dad moved to Oklahoma for work so I have to take the responsibility of driving my sister to soccer practice or after school activities, or picking my brother up from school or driving him to friends houses. I also have to go to work on top of that so we have to build our schedules to work together. My brother who is a year younger than me barely has any responsibilities and my mom doesn't expect anything from him except for getting his homework done and my sister who is 4 years younger than me just took the step of really wearing make-up. My mom used to always tell me to get a job and now that I have one she says that I don't have enough time to do it and i need to focus on school work and getting good grades. I work at hollister and no one is older than their late 20's so it's just like working with other kids and I feel equal and there are no adult influences around. People there help you understand the concept and what needs to be done and how and ever since having this job I think I have become more mature and learned the concept of responsibility even more.
"I think it's unfair for teens to just be expected to turn into adults in a day." I totally agree with you on this. We're just teenagers. We're still learning things about growing up. We can't just learn right off the bat of how to adapt to the adult world.
ReplyDeleteI agree that working makes you more responsible and understand the concept of responsibility more because if you screw up your disappointing more than just your mom because you didn't do the laundry :)
ReplyDeleteI agree that having a job does help make you responsible and and makes you become more mature. It also helps you to be organized having a job and teaches you how to be responsible for others as well.
ReplyDeleteOk - supposed to be getting my grading done but had to stop and Check the Rhime. Love the Tribe, aww yeah, Q-Tip. Nice. Anyway, nice cartoon. Funny how different things are for your siblings and you are not that far apart! Hollister sounds cool (even though I am anti-Hollister and anti A&F) but the job sounds cool because you get that interaction with slightly older individuals than you. The only thing is, sociologically, that author Stephanie Coontz would say that it is not meaningful and necessary work and so it doesn't provide an entry to adulthood for young adults - instead it feels more like you are in a holding pattern. Would you say that's true?
ReplyDeletep.s. I notice you follow Jimmy's blog - do you keep in touch with him? How is he? Tell him I said hi.
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