I need to act more mature than a silly teen please help me!

Question

Okay I'm getting older and I don't want act like a silly kid. I want to be mature have sophisticated conversations. Can you help me with this?

Answer 1

Talk correctly, educate yourself on world events, don't involve in gossip, assume responsibility for your actions(big one)  

Answer 2

i really couldn't help you with this seeing as i am a huge fan of stupid humor and laughing till it hurts

just remember- a day without laughter is a day wasted

and a day without sunshine...is like night

; )

Answer 3

Pay attention to local and national news. Adults conversations often start with something in the news and if a comment is made you can be informed on the subject.

Lose the teen words like "sweet" and about 50 more.

Speak well and speak well of others or do not say anything. You will come across as a person with great character over time wether you're seen as mature or not.

Answer 4

Being a mature adult has nothing to do with sillyness.

A grown up person with no sillyness and who is always serious is what we adults refer to as "Humorless *****".

To have a smarty pants conversation, you have to learnabout things you are interested in. It never works when you try to force your self to be interested in something that is utterly boring.

I reccomend wikipedia, lookup something you are already interested in. There are alway related articles than can broaden your knowledge and allow you to develop a keen philosophy.

You canlearn all the facts you want, but unless you have opinions or philosophy on the matter you are just quoting memorized info. And people can spot a robot like that from a mile away.

I went to wikipedia and searched for a "Fedora hat" because I wondered how the hat got it's name.

It linked me to a person who is famous for always wearing a fedora hat. Gunther von Hagens.

Who I learned is a person who takes actual human corpses and treats their bodies to certain chemicals that allow them to stay preserved with out the skin.

He actually tours the bodies around in various poses and it is a very famous show called "Body Worlds".

It was a plethora of spiritual & moral coversation where I got to muse on my philosophy about society reacting to this show.

It started with a hat.

So start with something you already like, there is always more to it.    

Answer 5

Just the fact that you want to be mature shows the potential for maturity.  Be real, don't try to play dumb and act giggly.

Answer 6

Talk correctly, keep up with current events (not entertainment news), be responsible, and realize that mommy and daddy can't bail you out everytime. That should be a good start.

Answer 7

Just be yourself and don't try to act like something you are not. To be more mature means to think responsibly. As you get older you'll get the idea. And always try to think before you speak just in case something you are about to say on impulse isn't as mature as you'd like it to sound. :)

Answer 8

You're actually spelling things correctly, that's a spectacular start...

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Answer 9

Don't try to be, enjoy being a silly teenager, because one day you will wish to be.  

Answer 10

Well you don't have to act like mature all the time. Be kiddsih around friends but when your around family or business stuff be mature

Answer 11

Do you work?  Try getting a job where you work around adult people. If you're in school, get a part time job.

Answer 12

it will happen on its own

Answer 13

That all depends on your motivations... why is it that you would like to act more mature or have different types of conversations?  (For example, you may be going away to college in the fall and would like to fit in, or you could want to make older friends.)

Send me a message with some additional info and I'd be happy to give you any advice that comes to mind!

Answer 14

Read.  That will expand you vocabulary and knowledge and help you to converse intelligently about a variety of subjects.

Stay informed on current events.

Write letters through the regular mail to older people you already know and trust, like family members.  Writing with pen and paper utilizes different parts of the brain than typing.

Exchange emails with older people or teens that share your ambition through anonymous sites like this one, but don't give out any personal information.  Use an assumed name.  

Don't ever completely abandon being a kid.  You'll live longer.

Answer 15

Dont give in to gossip, that is immature in itself.  Nothing is worse than hearing people, "Like, she was soooo in his face last night" and other such blabber.

Become educated in local news and national news too.  The global crisis, all that stuff.  Then you can carry on conversations with mature subjects. ;)

But dont grow up too fast, you have the rest of your life to be mature. :)  If you choose to that is!

Answer 16

Start listening to NPR.

National Public Radio.

Especially the News/Talk stations.

Answer 17

Get a job and start acting professional in what you do. Separate yourself from drama and work on social skills with adults  

Answer 18

whatever you see in yourself that u think of as childish avoid doing

Answer 19

watch the hills and you will find out how.

jk why change just be urself

Answer 20

yeah watch PBS at 11:00am

Answer 21

Just act boring and uninterested in things Develop a hobby like watching the news. Trust me, you may not want to, but it works.

Answer 22

There's not really much too it actually. I've always found maturity and intellect to be sort of 'in you' from the beginning. If you like to party and get drunk (et. al.), that's who you'll always be. If you like to read and talk about politics, that's also who you are. Just be ladylike and be yourself.

Answer 23

just be yourself dont try and grow up too fast