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...year-olds what they want for their birthday, and the answers range from a puppy to a laptop to getting their belly button pierced to "my girlfriend's virginity." New ballet slippers. My own room. Cash. Thirteen-year-olds have more power than discipline, more weapons than shields. They demand more respect from their parents and show them less. The Motion Picture Association of America understood the nature of the age when it invented the PG rating--parental guidance suggested--as though it knew that from here on, parents can guide, they can suggest, but kids are making more decisions...
Boys are preoccupied by their power and the opinion of other boys, their anxiety about whether they live up to the tests of masculinity, a new, deeper range of feelings that they may be unable to put into words and their own sexual lives. Thirteen is the time when parents finally get up the courage to talk to their sons about masturbation, and they are typically two years too late. Sons already have a well-established sexual life--with themselves. (They don't need girls yet and won't for some time.) Most are also seeing a lot of pornography...
...Thirteens on Thirteen Thirteen-year olds share their reflections Marissa Anderson Ariel DeNeve Jeffrey Dirkin Calvin Streit Haya Rios Jessica Gonzalez Duresny Nemorin Armaan Rowther Rose Buchberg Katherine Rack Joseph Charles Brandon Close Briana Katz...
...parents chose to come live in America. They believed that America would be a better place to raise children. My mother believed that if my sister and I were raised here, we would get better opportunities and have a chance at a better future. If I were thirteen and still living in Ecuador my life would probably be so much different than it is now. I wouldn't speak two languages, because I never would have learned English. I don't think I would be where I am now and I don't think I would have received the same...
...Being a teenager in America is very different but then again similar to being a teenager in Ecuador. I think that being thirteen in America is very difficult. A thirteen year old now has to deal with many forms of peer pressure. The pressure to be liked, the pressure to get good grades and there is the pressure to be a good person and make the right choices. Most people say that thirteen is a tough age, because that's when your body starts to take on changes and the worst problem of all occurs-acne. Teenagers have to keep...