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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things)

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One of the wise people of antiquity once said that everyday experience is a collection of mistakes accumulated by a person throughout their life. A person learns from some mistakes, some they simply try not to repeat, and some of these mistakes they alas repeat all throughout their life.

Recently, the so-called "Letters to Myself" genre has been very popular on the internet, where famous and not-so-famous people describe different mistakes they made at a young age and tell what they would do differently taking into account the knowledge that they have now. Unfortunately, in one's teen years, it is difficult to believe and accept some of the life facts that seem so obvious later.

A few days ago, a question was asked in the AskReddit community directly on this topic: "What are teens today not ready to hear?" As of today, the resulting thread has about 44.2K upvotes and over 26.7K various comments, where people in adulthood and older tell which life lessons the youth should definitely learn.

Yes, the thread looks a bit boomerish, but the ancients didn't say in vain: "Forewarned is forearmed." Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular comments from the original thread for you, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the submissions you like the most and of course share your own life lessons in the comments.

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#1

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Being controversial isn't the same as being interesting.

HezFez238 , cottonbro Report

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439points

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#2

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Playing music on your speakers in public areas makes you look like a complete douchebag. Nobody likes it but you.

acid_bear_boy , Budgeron Bach Report

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438points

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#3

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It’s okay to be a virgin at 18

projectdissociate , Jasmine Carter Report

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421points

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#4

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because you f****d up does NOT mean you’re a f**kup

Mr_Murder1 , Inzmam Khan Report

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417points

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#5

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.

SamuelLovesJazz , Olya Kobruseva Report

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415points

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#6

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) In the adult world, getting into fights doesn’t make you look cool, it just makes you look stupid.

honest_owl101 , EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA Report

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401points

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#7

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) To the ones who ride the public bus in my city, specifically: nobody else wants to hear whatever TikTok you’re watching. Buy some headphones.

EmiliusReturns , cottonbro Report

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401points

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#8

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It's not your duty to judge others. Just take care of your own s**t.

SuvenPan , Salma Smida Report

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398points

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#9

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You won't 'feel' different when you're older, or have kids. You'll just be you, it's weird.

Poshspicer , Eleanor Gwen Stewart Report

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391points

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#10

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) as much as you want to be unique, outspoken and be able to be you 100%, its just not that realistic.

as a queer poc millennial it took me a long time to learn that you gotta learn to pick your battles, read the room, and know that not every space is a space thats made for you.

ImGoingToSayOneThing , Elliott Brown Report

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369points

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#11

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Putting every aspect of yourself online is unsafe. Nobody needs to know your list of triggers or your address or your blood type

flamespond , Tracy Le Blanc Report

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368points

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#12

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) The older you get the faster it goes.

_curiousplum , Arjan Richter Report

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365points

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#13

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) One day you too will be old and uncool.

And it'll happen faster than you think.

omguserius , jennie-o Report

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361points

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#14

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media will give you too much of a superiority complex and hanging around people who enable you will f**k you up later in life.

SalemSuccubus , Tobias Dziuba Report

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342points

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#15

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because it's new to you doesn't mean it's new.

Broad_Word_1690 , Lapponica Report

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339points

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#16

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Not everybody can be an internet sensation, somebody has to drive the dump truck

Raggydasavage , SoulRider.222 Report

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338points

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#17

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It is perfectly fine to not know something. It’s OKAY to not know! Stop shaming and bullying people because you learned about something before they did. Social media is not the real world and acting like it is will only make people not want to be around you.

EDIT: I am not talking about ignorance. I’m talking about laughing when people ask a question in class, the “How do you not know that?” crowd, the mocking of people into never asking another question out of fear of ridicule and humiliation.

kimjongk80 , Rui Fernandes Report

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323points

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#18

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You guys know how the attractive and wealthy kids at school seem to just get life handed to them on a silver platter?

Get used to it.

Thirty_Four , Ron Lach Report

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311points

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#19

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Jobs aren’t meant to always be fun/your dream, sometimes you have to work a job you hate to stay afloat.

RebelGage , Selena N. B. H. Report

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308points

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#20

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media is not reality and your entire life should not revolve around it.

RickGrimesSnotBubble , Pixabay Report

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303points

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#21

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Please shower.

unhappyandokay , Jaysin Trevino Report

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300points

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#22

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) School has a system in place to keep you from falling behind, life doesn’t

Corey854 , Allison Meier Report

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286points

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#23

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You need to learn the difference between normal teenage neuroses and mental illness.

AlterEdward , Alex Green Report

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275points

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#24

You're not "mature for your age." Anyone who says that to justify wanting to be with you is a creep.

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271points

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#25

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) As you get older you just keep realizing how dumb you were last year.

Comparison_Past , smallcurio Report

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260points

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#26

10 years from now, no one will care about how many viewers you had on tiktok

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250points

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#27

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Today's eyebrows are yesterday's clown makeup and tomorrow's regret fodder

Lardinho , Aza Mather Report

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242points

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#28

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Stop self-diagnosing yourselves with mental illnesses

connerbv , cottonbro Report

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237points

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#29

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You didn’t invent that style

Frequent-Throat-5499 , Garry Knight Report

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223points

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#30

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) We adults are mostly just winging it, hopefully learning from the TONS of mistakes we make, but still winging it.

love2go , Austin Villages Report

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215points

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#31

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Someone somewhere cares about you deeply and loves to see you to be happy

TGwanian , fabio.tsu Report

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N Gregory 2 years ago

Which is important to remember considering that 99% of the world population couldn't give a c**p about you, or even know you exist. And that is not a bad thing.

78points

HyperSwag506 2 years ago

100%

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Rod McCabe 2 years ago

Actually in my circumstance, divorced at 54, noone anywhere cares. I've no family, friends, work associates, social media "friends", etc. Not "oh woe is me" by any means. I'm just saying that the original statement is not accurate for some of us.

14points

N Gregory 2 years ago

At 54 you have at least *had* someone who cared about you deeply. These are messages to teens. And it should be accurate for most 14 year olds that someone cares about them, even if it's only a social worker in the system. No teen should feel so isolated so early in life.

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Lisa Owen 2 years ago

Not always true .... please stop generalizing.

8points

WordiGirl 2 years ago

I'm an internet stranger, but I love you and Jesus does too, even if you don't believe. Sending prayers and hugs.

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TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago

Doesn't apply to everyone :/

5points

ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

And don't worry so much about the ones who don't

5points

lhemilie202 2 years ago

Not true for everyone ...adult life can be a very lonely place to exist.

2points

Sans Serif 2 years ago

One... can only hope! It's always best to work at deserving this rather than hoping it happens and, suddenly finding out... it didn't!

2points

WordiGirl 2 years ago

For anyone saying this is not true, please know that it is. I'm an internet stranger, but I literally love every single person in the world, past, present, and future. I wish the best for them and pray for them daily. This even includes you. Yes. YOU. Reading this right now. I'm sending all the hugs your way. You may not believe, but Jesus loves you also. God bless you all. 🫂💛🙏

1point

Scarlett 2 years ago

Nope! I have a messed up family who wishes I was someone else and a bunch of people who use me as a vent outlet but wouldn’t actually care if I was gone

1point

Cassi Lyris 2 years ago

Yes.

1point

Caleb Cheshire 2 years ago

If 99% of the world hates your guts and wants you dead that means that there are 7.9 MILLION people that think you are awesome

0points

Malina TinyKittenTitan 2 years ago

And you might not ever even know who they are but trust they do care <--' me its me.

0points

Steven Mankey 2 years ago

I actually have to disagree...I am just barely hanging on to my sanity and life by the nails

0points

Nancy Marine 2 years ago

Not me. Pretty much everyone around me couldn't care less.

0points

Marnie 2 years ago

Not always true. Stop with the inspirational, meaningless, and false-positive quotes.

0points

Aaron Matye 2 years ago (edited)

Well, I'm not a teenage, but who? 🤷 Where are they?

0points

Justin Haskell 2 years ago

My kids. Oh my God, no better feeling. My daughter, 5 years old, had to spend the weekend in the hospital. Only 1 parent can stay over night. She was heart broken at 7 when I had to leave which in tern broke my heart more than it was already broken for javen to go.she begged me to stay and couldn't understand why I couldn't. Honestly, I couldn't understand neither. Worst feeling leaving her.

0points

the versifier 2 years ago

This is highly asinine. My ex said this kind of c**p and then dumped me because I was "bringing her down". Skin deep maybe, I might just be too crass for love.

0points

writers-block 2 years ago

yes

0points

Susan Flewelling 2 years ago

Not always.

0points

Otakupanda 2 years ago

Reminds me of a quote " 7 billion smiles and yours is my favorite" does anyone know we're it is from

0points

Miguel Carlos Ramos 2 years ago

Yes, my mother and my son....

0points

NatalieC 2 years ago

But sometimes there is no one. Nurture your relationships or they will disappear.

0points

Mathieu Brouwers 2 years ago

As a parent I want everybody´s children to be happy. (Just look up your ancestors, none of them was childless.)

0points

Martina Moreau 2 years ago

Thank you for putting this on this list.

0points

Ambry Petersen 2 years ago

Focus on the few people who genuinely care for you, your life will be alot happier.

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#32

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Condoms are for stds too even tho there are other ways to avoid pregnancy.

mr_ribzeater , stu_spivack Report

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195points

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#33

In 15 years you’re going to think the kids have gone too far and they’re going to think you’re old-fashioned.

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189points

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#34

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Everything you do as a teenager will be cringe to your children

divinetrackies , Skyler Ewing Report

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187points

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#35

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You're closer to being the "older" person in any given setting than you think. And by "old" I mean like 30. Got nieces and nephews just starting kindergarten? Haha. Blink and they're starting college.

samcahnruns , Dark Dwarf Report

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185points

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#36

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) That heartache you're going through? It consumes everything now but it will be nothing but a footnote in the future. You'll rarely think about it later - & when you do, it won't hurt you.

It's hard to hear that your pain isn't the worst in the world when you're feeling it. But it does help to know that it won't mean as much as it does in this moment.

st3washere1 , Orin Zebest Report

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#37

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Things will likely take significantly longer to achieve than you think

Dull-College , Simon Harriyott Report

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#38

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Cut back on the sugary s**t now. Take care of your teeth now. Start working out now. You don’t have to be a bodybuilder and look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, just be active.

Now is the time to get out and do a bunch of crazy s**t but at the same time remember that whatever you do now you pay for 20 years later somehow someway. And this can be taken in a good way or a bad way. Don’t want to take care of your teeth now? Have fun dropping $30,000 on your teeth like I had to.

Not exercising or eating right? Have fun with that quadruple bypass that my father just had. My girlfriend’s parents are older than my parents but because they do those things they haven’t had nearly as much hospital visits as my parents have. By comparison my parents are falling apart and they’re only in the 50s. My girlfriend’s parents are in their 70s and objectively are healthier. The big difference? Early in the morning, every morning those two are downstairs working out hitting the weights and machines for a solid hour or two.

Do you want to speed and act a damn fool on the road? Have fun when you have to pay for your own insurance and nobody wants to ensure you to drive a f*****g Honda Civic for no less than $350, like me.

Even my f*****g car, it was my dream car and it still is the car I would be driving today had just taken care of the goddamn thing. But no it started leaking oil and I didn’t keep up with it or take it in and now I have to drive a goddamn Civic when I used to drive a Lexus.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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#39

Not everyone needs to go to college. High school is probably the easiest thing you'll do.

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#40

Your metabolism won't last forever. Practice and develop healthy exercise and diet habits now before it gets harder and with more consequences later.

I'm just about to turn 30 in a couple weeks. I am 100 lbs heavier than I was in high school (to be fair I was super tall and skinny to the point of slightly underweight), and that's after losing 25 lbs since the start of July. I have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. I am a father of a 2 year old that doesn't want to die in the 40-60 range. I also want to live as a good example to her.

Another 35 lbs and I'll reevaluate what my body type is like and reset my goals from there. That would be 240 lbs, which I was about 4 years ago...but it would also be a more muscular/trimmed 240. I'll determine where in the 210-240 range I want to end up and what my body and lifestyle will be like.

Running is still hard, but using the elliptical is easier on the knees than it was 25 lbs ago. I want to eventually be able to do the Broad Street Run (10 miles through Philadelphia) even though I hate running. If my knees don't like it, I'll do something else as an equivalent.

As an added bonus, my sex drive I think is improving but nowhere near what it was when I was in the 220-250 range. I don't think it's 100% related, but maybe it's more than 50%.

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113points

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#41

They’re most likely not going to be the one.

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#42

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You know nothing and it's okay.

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#43

Their children will blame their generation for all their problems

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#44

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Those are probably not friends for life - ok, slim chances for some.

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#45

High school won’t last forever

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#46

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Early successes at this stage in your life won’t necessarily give you an advantage later, but early failures will likely hold you back significantly. Basically getting straight As in high school will leave you closer to the mean than failing a number of classes.

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#47

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) The price of rent and housing they will have to deal with in a few years

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After many years of working as sports journalist and trivia game author and host in Ukraine I joined Bored Panda as a content creator. I do love writing stories and I sincerely believe - there's no dull plots at all. Like a great Italian composer Joaquino Rossini once told: "Give me a police protocol - and I'll make an opera out of it!"

After many years of working as sports journalist and trivia game author and host in Ukraine I joined Bored Panda as a content creator. I do love writing stories and I sincerely believe - there's no dull plots at all. Like a great Italian composer Joaquino Rossini once told: "Give me a police protocol - and I'll make an opera out of it!"

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Upper Enchilada 2 years ago (edited)

How about “Your parents shop at Walmart, not because they don’t care about employee treatment, but because it’s practical. Chances are, you’ll give up more and more ideals as you get older for practicality, so hold back your judgements”.

12points

AmmoniteCat 2 years ago

This post...felt sorta hateful. Like the whole world is against teenagers. All of us can't be grouped into a single category. We're still different people. And we don't have it as easy as you'd think.

12points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

not really, it's just giving advice we ourselves ignored as teens and now see the point of.

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Tim 2 years ago

Several of them didn't have a "get off my lawn" vibe and many of them were more like giving advice to your younger self.

6points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

There's no point in posts like these. Either you have a teenager who is already self-aware enough to grasp this stuff, or you have one that isn't going to listen, anyway. Maybe AmmoniteCat is the prior, and that's why it feels offensive. My only old-person advice is to ignore us and figure out your own way. Because odds are, everything will be different in a few years, anyway, and our experiences won't hold much water. It would be akin to a boomer giving advice to a young couple on how to finance a house.

3points

Justin Haskell 2 years ago

Such a teenager thing to say. As you get older you will realize advice isn't an insult and you will wish you took the advise. Everyone who isn't a teenager anymore once was and they/we don't think it's as easy as you think we think it is. Like I said we were all there. It may be hard but you will only be young once. You will be old so much longer. Enjoy your time even if you can only squeeze a couple good days in a week.

2points

Cory Willson 2 years ago

I dont see anywhete in the posts that say teenagers have it easy or anyome think they do. Just generic advice that anyone of any age might do good to hear

1point

Ande Anderson 2 years ago

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0points

Ray Arani 2 years ago (edited)

I'm in my mid thirties and I agree. Being a teen was really f*cking hard. I've mentored several teens, and they've since grown into their twenties and told me the best advice I gave them was, "I promise, it gets better. Just hang in there." That's the main advice I give to teens in my life. People love to complain about how hard their life is, but almost everyone had a super hard time as a teen, and when they really think about it, wouldn't go back to that time of overly intense emotions coupled with utter powerlessness.

0points

333 2 years ago

Well...you can all be grouped into the single category if that category is simply teenagers. Every generation of teens has said they don't have it as easy as old people think. Give it 10 or 15 years and you'll look back at it as the easiest time of your life.

0points

Bored Seb 2 years ago

thanks... I felt it the same way... so much condescension toward teens...

0points

$cagsy 2 years ago

Some good tips there for everyone, I think. Also, I'm of the opinion that teenagers generally, are underestimated. Obviously they don't know everything but they might surprise you if you give them the chance. In my limited experience, a constant stream of advice is worth much less than a lesson learned firsthand.

10points

similarly 2 years ago

1. Don't smoke. 2. Wear sunscreen.

2points

angry_waffle 2 years ago

A lot of these give off the idea of "You kids and your mental struggles /derogatory". So sorry that a lot of us are self-diagnosing, it's just that therapy is hundreds of dollars. Sorry that everyone reacts to heartbreak severely in the moment, a lot of us are hanging on by threads and every little thing can be the thing to make us give up. Sorry that everything is so much harder for you as adults, but if you keep complaining to us, some of us might end up thinking that it's not worth living to adulthood.

2points

Shoshana Sherrington 2 years ago

The fact that this post makes you angry is your problem, most of this is ppls reflections on their own lives. And don't you dare try to tell people in any kind of veiled or open way that if you do something drastic it's their fault BC they offered some constructive criticism. Find an adult in your life you can talk to and I wish you the best. Just remember that this phase of life is incredibly short, the ball keeps rolling

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Moth Rivers 2 years ago

Most of this article wasn't even helpful, just telling kids to get their heads out of their a*s. It felt spiteful and hateful. I thought it was going to be more stuff like the heartbreak one that can ACTUALLY HELP or the condom one that can ACTUALLY HELP

1point

Mike Loux 2 years ago

Failure's not falling down. Failure is staying down.

1point

Angel Silhouette 2 years ago

At some point after hitting 30, you'll realize that your 20s was just your late childhood. It's a shame we realize that so late.

0points

Shoshana Sherrington 2 years ago

Any person who breaks up with you isn't the only one you could ever love and now your life is over. To the opposite extreme, dropping a good relationship to chase a new flame is stupid and selfish. Consider that you don't necessarily know what it is to be in love and it's not infatuation. That does. Love lasts. Two opposite tips here. Don't despair from heartbreak but don't steal someone else's spouse or ditch your own BC so and so is so attractive to you and you're sure you love them. You don't.

0points

Charlie Simpson 2 years ago

Come back in 15 years and tell me you still feel the same way. While not everyone can be lumped into any one category, the best advice given is straight and to the point. Often times teens think they have a firm grasp on life and while some have a better grasp than others and don't need this advice nearly as much, some will hear this advice with good intention to follow and still have to find these things out the hard way. The life experience just isn't there and unsolicited advice will always come across as this person thinks they know me, thinks they know better than me. They don't know you, by they do mostly know better because they've lived it. Either way, like someone above said, you either get it already or you have to live it and find out for yourself. If any of it doesn't seem to apply to you, it probably doesn't.

0points

d 2 years ago

you have been fed a lot of stereotypes, much like advertising. teens are supposed be like XYZ. NOT TRUE. that kid you were when you were 5. 7, 9, 11... you WERE a great kid. you still are, YOU ARE A KID. those thoughts and wonderings you now have are just as valuable as "why is the sky blue?" people want to take the short route explaining why everything is the way it is. you deserve to know the why. 90% of my day consists of explaining to kids why I make the rules I do. 100% of the time there is a reason, usually safety. you will be adults soon enough. I hope you get as many chances as there are days before you become an adult to feel childhood, learn as you go, and become the person you want to become. be kind, be considerate, be ok with being the one that's still learning. learn, grow, be a kid when you are a kid. if you need help, ask, if you can help, do. you are not a stereotype.

0points

Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago

You're boss was a wise man 😁 Working in a hostile-free environment is worth gold 👍

0points

Toast Ghost 2 years ago

I can sense all the millenials and gen x's on here from the comments :)

-2points

Upper Enchilada 2 years ago (edited)

How about “Your parents shop at Walmart, not because they don’t care about employee treatment, but because it’s practical. Chances are, you’ll give up more and more ideals as you get older for practicality, so hold back your judgements”.

12points

AmmoniteCat 2 years ago

This post...felt sorta hateful. Like the whole world is against teenagers. All of us can't be grouped into a single category. We're still different people. And we don't have it as easy as you'd think.

12points

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

not really, it's just giving advice we ourselves ignored as teens and now see the point of.

22points

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Tim 2 years ago

Several of them didn't have a "get off my lawn" vibe and many of them were more like giving advice to your younger self.

6points

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

There's no point in posts like these. Either you have a teenager who is already self-aware enough to grasp this stuff, or you have one that isn't going to listen, anyway. Maybe AmmoniteCat is the prior, and that's why it feels offensive. My only old-person advice is to ignore us and figure out your own way. Because odds are, everything will be different in a few years, anyway, and our experiences won't hold much water. It would be akin to a boomer giving advice to a young couple on how to finance a house.

3points

Justin Haskell 2 years ago

Such a teenager thing to say. As you get older you will realize advice isn't an insult and you will wish you took the advise. Everyone who isn't a teenager anymore once was and they/we don't think it's as easy as you think we think it is. Like I said we were all there. It may be hard but you will only be young once. You will be old so much longer. Enjoy your time even if you can only squeeze a couple good days in a week.

2points

Cory Willson 2 years ago

I dont see anywhete in the posts that say teenagers have it easy or anyome think they do. Just generic advice that anyone of any age might do good to hear

1point

Ande Anderson 2 years ago

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0points

Ray Arani 2 years ago (edited)

I'm in my mid thirties and I agree. Being a teen was really f*cking hard. I've mentored several teens, and they've since grown into their twenties and told me the best advice I gave them was, "I promise, it gets better. Just hang in there." That's the main advice I give to teens in my life. People love to complain about how hard their life is, but almost everyone had a super hard time as a teen, and when they really think about it, wouldn't go back to that time of overly intense emotions coupled with utter powerlessness.

0points

333 2 years ago

Well...you can all be grouped into the single category if that category is simply teenagers. Every generation of teens has said they don't have it as easy as old people think. Give it 10 or 15 years and you'll look back at it as the easiest time of your life.

0points

Bored Seb 2 years ago

thanks... I felt it the same way... so much condescension toward teens...

0points

$cagsy 2 years ago

Some good tips there for everyone, I think. Also, I'm of the opinion that teenagers generally, are underestimated. Obviously they don't know everything but they might surprise you if you give them the chance. In my limited experience, a constant stream of advice is worth much less than a lesson learned firsthand.

10points

similarly 2 years ago

1. Don't smoke. 2. Wear sunscreen.

2points

angry_waffle 2 years ago

A lot of these give off the idea of "You kids and your mental struggles /derogatory". So sorry that a lot of us are self-diagnosing, it's just that therapy is hundreds of dollars. Sorry that everyone reacts to heartbreak severely in the moment, a lot of us are hanging on by threads and every little thing can be the thing to make us give up. Sorry that everything is so much harder for you as adults, but if you keep complaining to us, some of us might end up thinking that it's not worth living to adulthood.

2points

Shoshana Sherrington 2 years ago

The fact that this post makes you angry is your problem, most of this is ppls reflections on their own lives. And don't you dare try to tell people in any kind of veiled or open way that if you do something drastic it's their fault BC they offered some constructive criticism. Find an adult in your life you can talk to and I wish you the best. Just remember that this phase of life is incredibly short, the ball keeps rolling

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Moth Rivers 2 years ago

Most of this article wasn't even helpful, just telling kids to get their heads out of their a*s. It felt spiteful and hateful. I thought it was going to be more stuff like the heartbreak one that can ACTUALLY HELP or the condom one that can ACTUALLY HELP

1point

Mike Loux 2 years ago

Failure's not falling down. Failure is staying down.

1point

Angel Silhouette 2 years ago

At some point after hitting 30, you'll realize that your 20s was just your late childhood. It's a shame we realize that so late.

0points

Shoshana Sherrington 2 years ago

Any person who breaks up with you isn't the only one you could ever love and now your life is over. To the opposite extreme, dropping a good relationship to chase a new flame is stupid and selfish. Consider that you don't necessarily know what it is to be in love and it's not infatuation. That does. Love lasts. Two opposite tips here. Don't despair from heartbreak but don't steal someone else's spouse or ditch your own BC so and so is so attractive to you and you're sure you love them. You don't.

0points

Charlie Simpson 2 years ago

Come back in 15 years and tell me you still feel the same way. While not everyone can be lumped into any one category, the best advice given is straight and to the point. Often times teens think they have a firm grasp on life and while some have a better grasp than others and don't need this advice nearly as much, some will hear this advice with good intention to follow and still have to find these things out the hard way. The life experience just isn't there and unsolicited advice will always come across as this person thinks they know me, thinks they know better than me. They don't know you, by they do mostly know better because they've lived it. Either way, like someone above said, you either get it already or you have to live it and find out for yourself. If any of it doesn't seem to apply to you, it probably doesn't.

0points

d 2 years ago

you have been fed a lot of stereotypes, much like advertising. teens are supposed be like XYZ. NOT TRUE. that kid you were when you were 5. 7, 9, 11... you WERE a great kid. you still are, YOU ARE A KID. those thoughts and wonderings you now have are just as valuable as "why is the sky blue?" people want to take the short route explaining why everything is the way it is. you deserve to know the why. 90% of my day consists of explaining to kids why I make the rules I do. 100% of the time there is a reason, usually safety. you will be adults soon enough. I hope you get as many chances as there are days before you become an adult to feel childhood, learn as you go, and become the person you want to become. be kind, be considerate, be ok with being the one that's still learning. learn, grow, be a kid when you are a kid. if you need help, ask, if you can help, do. you are not a stereotype.

0points

Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago

You're boss was a wise man 😁 Working in a hostile-free environment is worth gold 👍

0points

Toast Ghost 2 years ago

I can sense all the millenials and gen x's on here from the comments :)

-2points

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