In the late 1990s, when I was 18, I sat 3 A-levels and got good grades – an A for English Literature, a B for Business Studies and a C for French. I was accepted at my first choice of university to study law and took up my place 6 weeks after getting my A-level [...]
Posts Tagged ‘teenagers’
Too Much Too Young
Posted in Children, Parents, tagged career, pregnancy, teenagers on February 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The Lost Generation
Posted in Children, Education, tagged Education, school, teenagers on February 12, 2010 | 8 Comments »
“Being unemployed is a very emotional time. You lose your confidence, you don’t think anyone wants you….” Hearing this kind of thing said about unemployment is not uncommon, but it somehow sounds worse coming from the mouth of Leah who is aged just 19. Leah was part of a Woman’s Hour Special yesterday that looked [...]
Snogging, swearing and smoking
Posted in Children, tagged teenagers on February 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It might shock you to hear that I was once a teenager – and not a particularly pleasant one at that. I was prone to hanging about with not much to do, snogging, swearing and smoking. So WHY do teenagers upset my nearly-middle-age sensibilities when I see them now? None of the teenagers I see [...]
