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Who are teenagers??????

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  1. meeeee!!


  2. A young person, usually between the ages of 13 and 19: adolescent, teen, youth. Informal teener. See youth/age/maturity.

    teenager

    Origin: 1938

    In the first part of the twentieth century, we made a startling discovery. There were teenagers among us! Until then, we had thought of people in just two stages: children and adults. And while childhood might have its tender moments, the goal of the child was to grow up as promptly as possible in order to enjoy the opportunities and shoulder the responsibilities of an adult. The girl became the woman, the boy became the man. It was as simple and significant as that.

    Or was it? The reforms of the early twentieth century, preventing child labor and mandating education through high school, lengthened the pre-adult years. In earlier times, a person reaching adult size at age thirteen or fourteen was ready to do adult work. Now adult size was achieved as soon as ever, but preparation for adult responsibilities lasted until age eighteen or later. Thus the years ending in -teen became something new and distinctive. Depending on your point of view, these years were either to be savored as the best of times, combining childhood freedom with adult physical maturity, or endured as years of hazard, combining childish irresponsibility with adult urges.

    To match our gradual recognition of this new phenomenon, we adopted new terminology. First, in the 1920s, we began to use teenage to speak of clothes and activities, girls and boys, in the latter cases recognizing the teen years but still assigning them to childhood. About two decades later, against the backdrop of depression and war, teenager was born. The exact date has yet to be determined; the word makes a matter-of-fact appearance in a 1941 issue of Reader's Digest, but being derived from long-established teenage, it must have been around at least a few years earlier.

    The teenager remade our world. The concept is profoundly democratic by right of chronology: every child, regardless of wealth or merit, can look forward to an age of vigor and independence. And it is subversive: why should any teenager enjoying freedom submit to the authority of adults? With the discovery of this new age, ours has been the century of the teenager ever since.

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  3. ppl hav age>13 & <20

  4. ME!

    Stop Georgia! - Stop war!

  5. people ageing between thirteen and ninteen..

    i am not a teenager coz i am 23 yrs..

    i hope i have helped

  6. hehe me!

  7. uuhhh... ppl between the age of 13 to 19 if thats what you mean =S

  8. Those who are between 13 to nineteen years of age

  9. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 year olds.

  10. MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    =D


  11. grapes

  12. Me! I'll be 14 in two months!

    Anyone 13-17!!!! LOL

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