Verbum Sap Sat : Teens will be kids

Amanda Schneck
October 25, 2012
Filed under Fun Stuff, Opinion, Top Stories

Boys and girls will have phases in their lives. First starting out when they?re the youngest they can be, and they love any chance they can get to watch Pinocchio or Bambi, and to play with their toys once they get back from school. Then, as they hit their middle school years, they develop some idea that they?re ?more mature.? They think they?re too old to watch ?baby movies,? and they don?t like to spend time with their parents because it?s ?uncool.? The thing is though, once they grow out of that naive and bratty stage, they hit their high school years where they will start to miss their childhood and grow closer to their parents. Teens will do anything to try and recreate their old, childish traditions to feel that youth and silliness again.

Having your parents introduce all the Disney movies, TV shows like Dora the Explorer and The Teletubbies, and fun activities like going to the pumpkin patch and riding on all the little slides and swings are all a part of being little. Those were the glory days of being a kid, and that time only lasts for so many years.

Before you know it, you?re starting middle school; you become stubborn and act like the stereotypical teenager that thinks they?re too cool for all the things that used to make them so happy years ago. Pre-teens don?t want to be seen with their parents, they think Disney Channel and any ?little kid? show is completely immature and annoying, and above all else, they believe that admitting to liking ?childish? things is beyond embarrassing and should be kept a secret. When you?re in middle school, everyone thinks that they have to be a certain person, wear certain clothes, be like everyone else, and they have to ?mature? out of their ?silly? childhood. It?s ridiculous that when you go through that stage in your life, that you completely shut out what made you happy when you were younger. You wrap your head around the fact that you ?hate? all the kiddy things that you enjoyed in your younger years. With growing in age, you lose a lot of the components that made up your childhood, like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. Parents are convinced that once you turn a certain age, you need to grow up and get over the silly things that you believed and celebrated when you were younger. This leads to older kids disliking other things that made up their childhood because they?re convinced that they?re too old for it all. It?s taken away from them, and at the time they don?t care all that much, but once they become much, much older, they realize how much they still want it and miss it.

Once kids hit their high school years, their whole attitude towards how they feel about all the childish things they experience when they were little, and then hated in middle school. Now, they want it all back. With getting older, you start to miss out on all the things you used to be able to do when you were younger. With being too big, us high schoolers can?t go on certain rides at amusement parks, we can?t jump in moonbounces with the little kids, and we just can?t join in on anything that the younger kids can do anymore. We have such energy and desire to be youthful again, that we indulge in all the things that made us little kids before. We watch Disney movies at home with friends, we buy little toys to snuggle with, we play on our gameboys again, and we watch every episode of spongebob over and over again. We just want to be kids again; be silly and goofy, and just not care about how embarrassing we may be because it?s more fun to not care and pretend to be a little kid. Getting caught up in all the innocent fun and realizing that we should have appreciated it much more than we had. Everything that was shown to us in our youth was to make us smile and laugh; even when we?re older, childish things can have that same affect. Watching all our old shows because it?s become so much cuter and more special to us than before. We appreciate the cute love stories, the silly characters, and the carefree life that we lived once before.

Putting myself into this, I?ll walk around in a Cookie Monster t-shirt with my dinosaur charm bracelet and own it because I love those little kid things. It makes up part of who I am and my personality. To everyone else, I?m like a little boy who says the silliest things, does the weirdest things and still won?t get embarrassed. I just don?t care much about it; if it?s fun then it?s totally worth it. Doing all the kiddy things all over again is so cute and just such a stress reliever because you get to be little again. Even when you?re older, you like to look back on how much fun you had when you were little, and then relive it all and smile just the same.

Source: http://www.verbumsapsat.com/opinion-comment/2012/10/25/teens-will-be-kids/

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