Title
Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1992
Excerpt
Junior High, the vortex of the turbulent adolescent experience, a time of departure from parental guidance but not yet an arrival at personal identity--a true period of transition. It is an age when a close relationship with one's parents is considered a breach of pre-teen etiquette. To be seen with a parent at the movies on a Saturday night is comparable to farting during an oral presentation or having one's shorts pulled down in the middle of gym class. Thousands of kids at the ages of twelve and thirteen are thrust into the unfamiliar environment of school dances and interchanging classes. Suddenly, the guy who used to fry bugs with a magnifying glass during recess and refer to you as "Giraffe Legs" is the man of your dreams. Waiting without hesitation for our "true adolescence" to begin, we abhor the term "pre-teen." Either you are a teenager or you aren't, and we all secretly hope we will be considered teenagers. As a young girl growing up in Huntington, Indiana, I was no exception to this juvenile hysteria.
Recommended Citation
Petersen, Brenda, ""Bloody Brenda" (1992)" (1992). The Valpo Core Reader. 333.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/333