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Post by mwalker96 on Oct 1, 2018 13:35:33 GMT 10
I think today's teenagers are more appecative of childhood simplicity than previous generations due to growing up in a chaotic era. I know plenty of teens who still enjoy doing kiddy stuff like playing outside, playing hide and seek, watching kid shows, etc. I know teenagers who say they don't want to date until there more older which is a huge contrast from when I was a teenager. I would see kids 12 and 13 making out back when I was a kid. I would get called a square or gay for not dating anyone. Ironically enough those same people who said kids shouldn't date in high school were dating well before high school.
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Post by Telso on Oct 7, 2018 18:50:47 GMT 10
One thing that I find kind of interesting is how in English, since 13 ends in "teen", we consider 13yos "teenagers", when more of us than not are not really there yet developmentally. For example, in Spanish 13 is "trece", which to me sounds very similar to 11 "once" and 12 "doce". In my experience, these ages are quite similar, being the "tweens", though it doesn't change over to the diec- prefix until 16. Does anybody know whether in a Spanish speaking country (or anywhere else) if 13 is considered a teen year in the same way it is in anglo countries? Living in both a French and Dutch country, I can confirm 13 is in fact considered a teenage year here, mostly due to the fact you're usually in secondary school at that age as opposed to elementary school But due to how bizarrly made school years are, someone born in September-December could perfectly join "middle school" at age 11, then turn 12 and stay like that for the rest of the school year.
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Post by al on Oct 12, 2018 3:34:38 GMT 10
Living in both a French and Dutch country, I can confirm 13 is in fact considered a teenage year here, mostly due to the fact you're usually in secondary school at that age as opposed to elementary school But due to how bizarrly made school years are, someone born in September-December could perfectly join "middle school" at age 11, then turn 12 and stay like that for the rest of the school year. Thanks for the info. At most schools in the US, the cut off tends to be in September, so there's only going to be a handful of kids who are the younger age starting a grade. However, like I've mentioned before, elementary school can end anywhere between 3rd and 8th grade, so here it's hard use it as a marker of childhood.
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Post by crystalmetheny0428 on Jun 29, 2022 12:48:55 GMT 10
in a lot of my city 6th grade is elementary so i turned 12 towards the end of that school year. once i entered 7th grade (junior high, which was only 7th/8th) it started to feel different, but i wouldn’t quite say i felt like a teenager yet. though it certainly wasn’t proper childhood. i would say 8th grade is when i started to feel more like a teenager and that’s the most recent age that feels even remotely similar to now, albeit hanging on by a thread
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Post by nightmarefarm on Jul 12, 2022 18:30:19 GMT 10
I see 11-13 as the preteen years.
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Post by astropoug on Jul 12, 2022 20:41:25 GMT 10
At age 12, I was definitely becoming self-aware of myself and my ambitions, as well as the kinds of things I wanted to accomplish. I was also really getting interested in internet culture.
I do agree that age 12 feels very different from even age 10 (which is definitely childhood), but it also feels very different from age 14 (which is definitely teenhood).
I would say age 12 and 13 from my experience are the preteen years. Age 11 to me still felt like childhood, and I definitely observed my peers were still largely childlike. Maybe it's cause I moved schools but age 12 felt EXTREMELY different from age 11. I distinctly remember all the kids were cussing and making dirty jokes, and many of them were into edgy YouTubers like Filthy Frank.
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