When reading through your newspaper yesterday, I stumbled across your article about “teenage lifestyles today”. When reading it I realized that this was just going to be an other article about how teenagers in previous generations were so much healthier and more active than today’s teenagers.

These articles always annoy me, because the writers only look at things from there own point of view, when sometimes you have to look at things from a different perspective.

The writer of the article in question did not do this. The writer did state that the lifestyles of teenagers have changed over the years, but he neglected to mention that there are many factors involved in this change.

One of these factors is that children do not grow up as fast as they used to. In the 1920s boys were considered men as soon as they turned 14, this only left two years of being a teenager. Over the years this has increased to six or seven years of being a teenager.

An other factor involved in the lifestyle change is the fact that computers and televisions have become more available and affordable for everybody, and so having a computer or television has slowly become part of our society. This has meant that in the long term people have started to think that in order to be a part of our society they have to watch television or play on the computer. The same thing has occurred to teenagers, who are even more vulnerable when it comes to being part of something, and the one thing every teenager aspires to be is a part of society.

I sincerely hope that the writer reconsiders what he has written and realises that this change is not the teenagers fault, because this change was caused by society, the one thing we are all part of.