Even then he continued his studies, master geometry, trigonometry and surveying and applied them in his job as an official surveyor of the Culpeper County, Virginia at the age of seventeen. He lost his father at eleven and his friends never considered him smart. Take George as an example, he was born in Viginia to a middle class family. But what I would like to point out is that we should grab hold of a more exciting option for our teen years than that portrayed as normal in society today.

Let’s Do Hard Things! You’re probable reaction to that phrase would be, “Hard? I’d rather do something else!” Yes, I understand this kind of reaction.

The thought of it holds us back from what we could really do and what we would want to do if ever we could escape from being under society’s low expectations. Biologically it’s true but the problem is the modern understanding of the term allows, encourages and trains young people to remain childish for much longer than necessary. Adolescence literally means –“to grow up”. The question is, what changed? Why is it that young people back then aged 15 or 16 could do things better that many of today’s 25-30 year olds can’t do? The answer is, people today view teen years through the modern lens of adolescence. The end of childhood was raised in the 19 th Century to fourteen. Girls attained marriageable age at fifteen. Boys back then could join the army at fifteen. Then what would it be like to be a teen back then? According to the Historian Friedrich Heer, at around 1800, young people were considered adults when the outward signs of puberty shows up. So if that’s the case people back then were categorized as children or adults. Like most teens, we attend school, have Facebook and Twitter accounts, take pictures with our phones with cameras and many more.īut would you believe that teenagers never really have existed? According to the Reader’s Digest Issue in 1941, the word teenager has been around for less than seventy years. Teenagers, as society coins it are people between thirteen and nineteen years of age.

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