There is a proverb that "Teenagers are like a sharp knife." It means that they are very sensative emotionally, and are not matured completely yet. The teen years are a period of growth for an individual. As a teenager, I had limitations for my behaviors and the rule for girls was strick.
Pipher says, " Sex was probably my most confusing problem."(489) and "We were told that sex would ruin our lives and reputations." (490) As a teenager, Pipher was uneducated about sex, so under this condition, whenever she saw a romance magazine and heard dirth jokes or songs which were expressed sexual implication, this made her more confusing to think about sex. Likewise, I also had not sufficient knowledge about sex. Most junior hing schools were not a co-educational school, so girls did not have an opportunity to meet boy
During my adolescene, I sometimes felt resistance for proper behavior. Like pipher says, "Utopia would be a place for teenagers."(495), teenagers likely seek to a perfect world which they can feel free and safe. As a teenager, there is lots of limitations which we cannot do as we want, so these make us to feel unfree and confuse beteen proper behavior and our impurse. Therefore, the time of teens is the time to make us to consider about ourselves.
Pipher said, "Teenage boys had a difficult time finding alcohol."(487) and "We signed pledges that we would never drink or smoke." In contrast, it was not difficult to get alcohol for teenagers during my adolescene, and some girls in our school smoked and drunk with their friends and acted like an adult. One day, my friend asked me to smoke together, and it was ha
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