irene Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Does anyone agree with me that being a teenager in the 50s was better than being a teenager these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.fogg Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 I think being a teen in the 70s was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summer1955 Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 being a teen in the late 60s and early 70s was great and would have rather have been a teen in the 50s than being one today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiesh Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I don't know I never knew what it was like then as I wasn't born:confused: I grew up in the 1970's and had a great childhood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosey Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Obviously its very difficult to compare, but what is it about being a teenager in 1955 that you would consider better than being one now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by mr.fogg I think being a teen in the 70s was great. Second that! Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I think I would rather be a teenager now. You have so much choice with very few restrictions. You have a whole lot of clothes designed specially for you. In my days, the 50's, I wore either childrens clothes or adult clothes and no choice in between. No tights-- only choice of socks or stockings. I know it's a youngmans/oldmans fantasy but no joke to me when having to wear them for school in the winter and held up by suspenders. You have a knowledge of sex whiich we/I certainly didn't have with the neccessary biirth control equipment to go with it. whether you make the right choices to go with it--- is up to you but at least you have a choice. And if things go wrong you have all the help and encouragement at hand to hep you out. The poor souls in my day who were unfortunate to be pregnant had to hang their heads in shame or go to a back st abortionist. I never went down that path but a cousin did and it ruined her life. hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosey Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Its exactly these massive choices that in many ways makes it worse to be a teenager today. Having the wrong type of clothing type of mobile can make them social outcasts. Teenagers are more worried today about sex than they should be and whilst getting pregnant at 14 or so in the 50's was relatively rare it now is increasingly more common. In conclusion the 50's there were hardly and choices everything was simple today its complicated and because of this, I think there are many miserable teenagers in today's world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 hi Mosey I know what you are saying, but I still think my/our lives would have been different if I had had the knowledge that the teenagers have today. Its difficult to go back without taking with me the ??wisdom I have collected throughout the years. Perhaps our/my innocence protected us but I don't think so I think we would have been better off knowing what life was about. One of the things I think was better was the job situation, We could go from one job to another with plenty of choice. Leave one day and start work the next at a different place. But remember no television, no computers, no central heating, ink fountain pens, coal fires, freezing in the mornings when you got up, no showers, what could I have done with all these things available now especialy computer. hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irene Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by Mosey Obviously its very difficult to compare, but what is it about being a teenager in 1955 that you would consider better than being one now? Well to start with teenagers in the 50,s were a lot more friendly to each other, we dident have all the things they have these days but we were a lot happier. Teenagers today get everything they want ,so why do they allways want more, and why are they so miserable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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