In 8th grade I had braces, wore a low ponytail, and had no desire to wear yoga pants in order to emphasize my butt. How in the world are 8th graders now the complete opposite of that? Why is everyone growing up so fast? Freshman year I didn't even know what marijuana looked like or frankly what the hell it even was. Freshman now are partying, having sex, and doing drugs???
When did this change.
Maybe its because media is becoming more flamboyant or maybe its because younger girls are looking up towards older girls as role models. Who knows.
My braces, low ponytail days were some of the most fun and least stressful times in my life. I hate to see young girls throw away their youth because they think its more "fun" acting older.
I agree!! What happened to those awkward middle school years and why do the kids these days get to skip them?? No fair, smh.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of it comes from media exposure and just what people talk about in your age group. When I was growing and really until high school started I didn't watch much TV and all the drugs/alcohol/sex that I heard about were centered around the "worst" people in my middle school. In high that all changed as I started viewing more media and started hearing more about normal people doing those things.
ReplyDeleteHaha I think this is crazy.. I think some middle schoolers are exposed to more things than I am. I agree with David. Like we learned in Miss Representation, the media has no filter. With certain "role models" or social media sites like tumblr,insta, teenagers are learning what's cool, however it's much too old for them. And I see this in my 9 year old brother. He has been exposed to technology pretty much all of his life. And my family did not even own a computer until I turned 9...
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