Sadly, the only times we cover teens in our newsroom is when there's a bomb threat at a school, a fight inside a school, or when one of them has taken a gun to school. There are the rare stories about the teen with the perfect SAT score, or the one who saved his family from a raging house fire -- but it's a rarity that those stories make it into our editorial meetings.
Being the mother of a 16-year-old girl, I know there's more to teens than bombs, fights and guns. My daughter's life centers around the Pop, Lock & Drop It, Facebook and boys! However, getting her -- (and other teens for that matter) to talk openly about what's going on inside their heads is hard -- and -- often times intimidating.
I think we could do a better job covering teenagers, if only we could understand them!
They are just so darn complicated to us -- and so are we to them.
I guess many of us have forgotten that we were once teens ourselves.
Being the mother of a 16-year-old girl, I know there's more to teens than bombs, fights and guns. My daughter's life centers around the Pop, Lock & Drop It, Facebook and boys! However, getting her -- (and other teens for that matter) to talk openly about what's going on inside their heads is hard -- and -- often times intimidating.
I think we could do a better job covering teenagers, if only we could understand them!
They are just so darn complicated to us -- and so are we to them.
I guess many of us have forgotten that we were once teens ourselves.
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