If you could choose would you have preferred to be a Teenager today

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I saw this somewhere else and thought it was a good question so I bring it to you folks... :D.

Take away your wisdom of age and all your life experiences and just concentrate on your teen years ( without any rose coloured specs)...and compare it to the lifestyles and opportunities, of todays' teens.

Would you have preferred to have the life of todays' youth...or do you think that the decade you were a teen was the best ever...and please feel free to give your reasons ?
 

No way would I want to be a teen now!! You have to grow up too fast nowadays and don't get much of an innocent childhood.

I'm grateful I grew up in the 1950's and 60's. I wouldn't trade being a teen in the late 60's for anything!
 
Ameriscot said:
No way would I want to be a teen now!! You have to grow up too fast nowadays and don't get much of an innocent childhood.

I'm grateful I grew up in the 1950's and 60's. I wouldn't trade being a teen in the late 60's for anything!
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Bullie76 said:
50's for me. I'll take the 'Leave it to Beaver' era over today's texting and computer games any day.
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I agree - except for me it was the 60s. My teen years included the Beatles, Eric Clapton, long hair, short skirts and flower power. Staring at some little screen moving my thumbs over a tiny keyboard? Nah!
 
Todays teens .....fast and furious, without a care in the world, die young.
60's teens...........slow pace, obey your parents and live longer.
 
I think it would be fun to be a teenager again, but back in the days, muscle cars and drive-ins were just too cool. I could have done without being a combat Marine in Vietnam, but even from that era, I gained experiences that I was able to use later in life.
 
For the most part NO... I wouldn't.. However, in looking back on how it was for females in the 60's in HS.. yes.. HS girls today have so many more options open to them. Back in the mid-60's... HS girls were seldom counseled to go on to college unless they wanted to be a 1. Nurse... or 2. Teacher. The girls that went on to work after HS became bank tellers or secretaries. Most just got married and had babies.. Sadly.. very few of us knew there could be other options let along had the confidence to navigate the roadblocks put in the way of girls looking to step out of the mold.
 
I would prefer to be a teen now --- the biggest complaint I'm hearing about being a teen in today's world is the phones and technology, which doesn't seem like such a hardship to me. Present time teens have better career options, more money, life choices, freedom to be themselves and know the world, technology, freedom to be whoever they want and access to knowledge and happiness. I think I'd rather be a world-wise teen with an I-phone than an isolated teen in the 50's and 60s, wearing ugly clothes, as most teens were. Today's world offers so much more -- transportation, communication, education, health care, even entertainment.

I think many older seniors have romanticized their childhoods as being idyllic, innocent and free of cares... which I don't think was the case. We had plenty of cares, but usually no one to talk to about them.
 
I'd rather be a teen in the late '60s again, exciting times, great music.

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I don't think it was ever easy to be a teenager. Past, present and future teens will still be dealing with the same issues and insecurities as all the other generations, and trying to fit in and figure out who they are.
 
I loved my youth. Much simpler than today. All faced a draft board classification at 18 but until then it was just plain ole fun. No wasted time on TV, video games, computers, smart phones. We were out, socializing. I wouldn't trade it for today for anything.
 
As a die-hard Beatles fan I love that the Beatles hit the US just a couple of weeks before my 12th birthday. They split up when I was 18 and just before I graduated high school. Their music progressed as I did through my teens. Innocent at 12, deeper at age 15/16.

Of course, I had to visit Liverpool when I moved to the UK.
 
I think the lives of people and teens may have been more simple back in the 50s, since they were often less educated and knew much less than people know today -- and maybe the old saying goes "ignorance is bliss". But those same kids were also terrified in the 50s and 60s, especially in the US with the threat of nuclear attack and communism and getting arrested for smoking a joint, and then of course the draft. But as we age, we often look back on our life through rose colored glasses.
 
Cookie said:
I think the lives of people and teens may have been more simple back in the 50s, since they were often less educated and knew much less than people know today -- and maybe the old saying goes "ignorance is bliss". But those same kids were also terrified in the 50s and 60s, especially in the US with the threat of nuclear attack and communism and getting arrested for smoking a joint, and then of course the draft. But as we age, we often look back on our life through rose colored glasses.
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Yes, we do tend to do that. I remember duck and cover as a 6/7 year old but I don't remember being afraid. But I do remember being able to go outside and play all day long, ride my bike just about anywhere, go to a shop to buy candy, and there wasn't a worry about being kidnapped or murdered. I'm sure that did go on, but not that I know of where I lived. My big worry was when I couldn't find my roller skate key.
 

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