Well going into this i thought that my parents and i had a very different teenage experience, but i found out different. I thought that the survey went really good because it showed me that our teenage generation does not really care about the past. The hard part was defiantly finding a good source. I had one really good book. that was about it, other than just my parents' word. Next time i would have a more focused topic. My topic was everywhere, first it was about the differences between us and it started shifting to see if our teenage generation was interested in our parents teenage years. so next time i would keep my questions very specific. Doing this research i see that that my patents and I are not so different and that we have been through some of the same stuff.

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If i was to do another research again around this topic, maybe a topic or a question I might ask is why dont people want to know about the parents teen years. Things should change by maybe us teenagers being more interested in something besides our own life. Open it up and learn something new and interesting. This might lead to parents spending more time with their kid, getting to know one another, parents tell their kids stories and such.

Post 5

The survey data presented in the chart below reveals that a significant majority of students are somewhat interested in there teenage years. surprisingly alot of students were not interested at all about the parents teenage years. Only a small portion, 15 students, of the 133 surveys taken were very interested their parents teenage years. Doing reserch and laking a look in to my parents teenage years I'm concluding on this: Our teenage years are not that much different. We do pretty much the same things, go to school and work a part time job to get a little extra money. The only thing that has really changed is the technology, cell phones, laptops, GPS and T.V.

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teens working (Post 3)

During the sixties most kids had part time service jobs. then malls and fast food restaurants opened up. the need for unskilled work especially in the late afternoon and on the weekends opened jobs for millions of teen across america. no training or experience was necessary in these jobs. this gave teens extra spending money for like records, clothes, movies and maybe a used car.


Rollin, Lucy. Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999. Print.

POST 2

How are the teenage experiences of my parents in the 60's different from the experience of modern day teens?

how interested are you with your parents teenage years?

how much do you know about you parents teenage years?

POST 1

I'm comparing the differences between my teenage years and my parents teenage years. I picked this topic to research about because i know very little about my parents generation in their teenage years. I want to know what they did for fun, how school was like, what parents were like, anything having to with their teen years.