I don’t have any comments for the content of this article, but all I’d really like you to read is the headline. It is a very tiny snapshot of agist attitude in adults: one minute they can be very kind, but the next something a young person says to them gets them very frustrated. In [...]
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Contrasting Moods Within A Single Headline
Posted in Agism, Funny, tagged headline, sexting on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Cuter, Nicer Representation of Teenagers
Posted in Agism, Funny, tagged behavior, positive representation on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Why we mustn’t think the worst of teenagers” from The Times & Star.
MY niece was telling me about a worrying train trip to Glasgow recently.
She said that a man, in his 40s, at the table across the aisle, right before her eyes, took out some powder, started cutting it with his credit card and then, [...]
Child Marionettes
Posted in Funny, tagged children, holidays, ironic, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Claremont parents clash over kindergarten Thanksgiving costumes” from The Los Angeles Times, written by Seema Mehta.
Via “The War on Thanksgiving!” from Gawker, blogged by Pareene.
The most important thing typed was on Gawker, however:
Now some parents say they’ll send their kids to school in costume anyway, in order to take a stand against this grandstanding woman [...]
