Teenage Problems Quotes

I'm coaching 'swing at this, don't swing at that,' and in the middle of it, a kid looks at me and says, 'Coach, I think I'm going to fail history.' Or maybe their girlfriend just dumped them. These are kids, and once I embraced that, this became a lot more fun.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.

Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

I have seen bright young people all over this country in an ocean surrounded by the sharks of drugs, alcohol, violence, homicide, suicide, AIDS and teenage pregnancy while we argue over whose values we are going to teach.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

Whenever I hear the word 'breakout,' I associate it with acne.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

I'm a 20 year old white boy residing on the Eastside of Cleveland, OH, and I am loud and obnoxious troubled youth that spends weeknights pissing parents off by turning their daughter's room into a giant orgy-fest.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.