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Out of trouble A teenager today is quite different from the teenager I was back in the 1940s. I grew up on a tobacco farm and worked in tobacco during the summer. Besides working in our own tobacco, I helped our neighbors. With the money I made from the neighbors, I bought my school clothes and my schoolbooks. If teenagers today work at all, they spend their money for things they don’t really need. They have too much, and they don’t appreciate what they have. Teenagers today are smarter than I was. They learn so much from TV and the computer, but some of the things they learn are not good. I think so much violence among teenagers comes from TV and the computer. I’m not saying all teenagers today are bad, but too many of them are. When I was a teenager, my parents kept us so busy, we didn’t have time to get in trouble. Gladys Pegram |
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