Some people look at teenagers like they are mystical beings that can’t be understood; that they use their own language, and reason in different ways. Many parents analyse every word and action in fear that their child will ‘fall off the track’ and become a drug addled tramp, something similar to Ke$ha (which amounts to just about my worst nightmare of how my future daughters could turn out).
I am not one of those people. I’ve worked with teenagers in the past, and feel like I remember enough about what it was like to be a teenager that I have a firm grasp on how to communicate with them. And my approach has always been to treat them just like I treat any other person, because, well, they are people. And that’s how they want to be treated. That’s how I remember it at least.
Well Tralee …
