Young People Today

Young people – generation gap

Young people today are different from our grandparents’ days.

At grandparents time there was no virtual entertainment and they just played traditional games. Now we have so many consoles that it is difficult to choose what we want to play.

The difference is not just the entertainment, one of the best evolutions was the way we study, because our grandparents had to go to the library and read one hundred books to know what is in a page of internet now.

Another difference is the way we communicate, while in the past our grandparents walked a lot of meters to talk with their friends, now we just use the cell phone.

The differences between our parents and us are so many. I like being a teenager nowadays!

Luis Filipe e Alexandre

Being a teenager today

Teenagers nowadays have too many worries with their bodies, future and the way the other people talk about them. Besides that, they have to worry about their future, too.

Young people, nowadays, are addicted to television, computer games and Internet too.

They spend much time in home instead of going out with friends and doing some exercise.

Because of that, many of them become fat and with an empty life. An unreal one.

But there are some teenagers (like us) that don’t have the same problems and addictions as them. I don’t worry that much about my appearance and my only addictions are healthy ones. For example, dance, music, extreme sports, books, etc. And so, because of my healthy addictions, I’m a healthy person. I wish that everyone could be like me, if they were, a lot of problems wouldn’t exist.

João Bento e Inês Campos

GENERATION GAP OR COMMUNICATION GAP

Many young people think that their families do not understand their problems.
Young people generally make their decisions alone or with the help of a friend of the same age.
Very often this happens because there is no communication between parents and children. Parents, sometimes, have no time to talk with their children because they are too busy with their own problems.  

We think that parents should have time to talk to their children and try to understand their problems and help them.

Andreia Gonçalves e Matilde Ramos

Teenagers’ Futures

Future career

Some of us have already thought of our future career.

In our opinion to be successful in the future we need to have some moral values and we need to have qualifications, too.

For us it is important to have a job to earn money, to have some recognition and also to help other people.

To get a good job we think we must work hard at school to get good results.

We are aware of some social problems, for instance, unemployment so we feel a bit worried about our future.

Bruno and Friends