Too olde for this site ?

With all the youth on this sight, I'm curious to know; how many of you who are under 18 wish that those of us over 30 would please go away. Do any of you feel that we oldsters are cramping your style? Do any of you especially enjoy hearing a more...

mature view point, if so why?

It's good to get a perspective from someone with experience, I'm only 16 myself but I think older people make more sense than our generation (they also generally speak clearer and with better grammar) and I'm far more likely to take advice from someone who actually knows what they're talking about than someone who doesn't. I hope you all stay on here, the older the better.

Hmm.. I'm in the middle. Not quite a kid, but not over 30. I'm 23 years old, and I still feel kind of old on this site sometimes.

I lover the older generation on this site, I think they give great insight on some questions that the younger generation need to hear.

I hope we are not cramping there style, because I think and I hope they really take some of our advice. But I am shocked at some of the questions asked and then really shocked when I look at their age. OH MY MY

I agree.. I think any age is fine for this site.. after all its fun advice so it can be serious or fun.. it helps anyone I thinks

Naw its jsut the older ones that has negative advice. WHen they really need to shut up cus they asked and did some of the same things we are soing now

Yeah... you're right, we asked and did the same things... and we learnt from it... but you're right... you're better off getting advice from people who havent learnt better (makes sense, I suppose, to the immature mind)

-Diva - what you need to understand is that yes, the older generation may have made the same mistakes you are making now, but when they are telling you things, they do it out of experience and being through things that you are going through. They are trying to stop you from making the same mistakes they made, and living a harder life than you should have too.

I'm a recovering drug addict, yet I still tells kids not to do drugs, experiment, etc. Just because I did something in my past - does not mean I will condone it. I talk to them from experience and tell my story and all the trouble it has caused me down the road to try and help them not make the same mistakes.

There are a couple people 50+ on here, and no one seems to mind. So stick around if you want to put up with US, all the current young generation whose constantly asking questions about STDs, pregnancy at age 14, someone underage wanting a tatoo and to move out of the house. You're not too old for this site. Stick around.

I'm right in the middle too, almost 22. Honestly I sometimes feel too old for it too, when I see birthdates like 1994 and stuff. However, I enjoy answering the questions that these kids ask and advice, because we were once there too.

ok yea mandy loo you may be right in some cases but you did not understand where I was coming from. Me myself yeah have been through a lot to be my age. But dont nobody want to listen to someone that is doing the things that they are tellen you not to do

Your not listening. I'm talking about older people who have done things and experienced things in their past - that they have lived through. Just becuase they did something bad in their past - does not mean they are going to condone you doing the same thing. They are trying to help you. I talk at NA meetings and AA meetings regualry about my past (I even talk to people way older than me), who are going through what I went through. I do it because I care, and because I want them to see what it did to me, and how I changed my life around.

You have to realize they have your best interest in mind.

I have to add that some of the things these very young people are asking or doing, I have NOT done or did when I was younger,
Sneaking out or smoking a cig got me a a$$ spanking, I could not imagine telling my parents I think I might be pregnant, arrested, or addicted to drugs.
They would have strapped my a$$ down and I would have learned really fast.
Trust me I do think things are way worse now that the younger kids do. I loved my teenage years, I would have NEVER been able to worry about if I was pregnant, I was way to busy doing stuff to worry about another life. Even well into my twenties, I am now 34 a pregnant with my first child, If I could make it this far without a mistake then I think anyone can.
Ok I am off my soap box,
Thanks

I am one of the ***older*** ones here, and I have a lot of 14 or 14 year olds who come to me regularly for advice or look up to me as kind of a mother figure because they a)don't have a mother or b) their mother is not *what they think she should be*(neglectful, abusive, addicted to drugs/alcohol),etc. They see that I have a daughter their age, we start talking, and it develops from there.
I learn some from the girls that age that help me make my relationship with my own daughter stronger!

Mandyloo makes a good point. The older people at the NA and AA meetings learn from her experiences---just as she has learned from the **older ones** when she first started recovering.
Any age can learn from someone older or younger.
And -diva- no, we won't shut up...sorry. Because we DON'T want you guys to make the same mistakes we did! Just because it isn't what you want to hear doesn't make it wrong or negative. Its just different than what you believe. (•=

I'll be 27 next month but I can remember what it felt like to be a teenager like it was only yesterday. I wish I had this site when I was a 'youngster'!

To me, I think the most helpful thing to do for teenagers is listen to them, respect their thoughts and offer them advice from the wisdom we gained in our teenage years. It's a rough time for people. They have no idea who they are, who they want to be and all anyone does is tell them they're too young and they shouldn't do this and they can't do that. The most responsible thing the teenagers can do is listen to us and know that most of us really do have their best interests in mind. We're not just telling them they shouldn't do things or that they're too young simply to rub our freedom in their faces, we just know more from experience. With age, comes wisdom. It's a fact. I've learned to take all the advice I can get from my elders.

I'll be 55 in Dec. and remember being 13 like it was yesterday, but am so grateful I wasn't into so much of what I see on here at that tender age. I did experiment with puppy-love and even tried drugs, but ultimately took the advice of my elders-especially my mother who taught me to come to her with anything that was on my mind. I learned how to relate to others socially without giving myself away or having to face unpleasant consequences from poor choices. It's hard for me to believe I was considered fast for my age when I read some of the questions on here from the younger kids. It saddens me to think someday when they are older they will regret missing out on what could have been their age of innocents (not a bad thing) Sex isn't even something that gives one a solid foundation in life. It shouldn't be reduced to a bunch of bodily functions and practiced as though it's a given. In fact saying- no thank you when you're younger makes it all the more enjoyable and special when your body and mind are mature enough to appreciate the nuances of putting it all together- mind, body, spirit, character, life experience and a loving partner.

I realize I was fortunate to have the kind of mother who would listen to my endless barrage of questions and that not everybody here can do this, but just in case you can and don't; remember nobody loves you more than your own parents and maybe they know a thing or two about what you are asking online. Better to be a little embarrassed or feel awkward now than to have to tell dear old mom and dad that you blew it because a 14 year old told you to *go ahead* All blessings

Same here...if I had told my mother I was preg when I was 14, just like Harley said---I would have gotten a good a** beating! I wouldn't have had to worry about delivering--id have been dead meat! Lol. I could never have gone with her with questions about sex either.
On that matter, though I certainly don't believe beating a child is any kind of answer. And from the beginning I have let my daughter (who is now 14) know she can come to me with anything. Or any questions she has. And she does, frequently.
Those teen years--I thought I was also loose for my beginning to have sex with my boyfriend whom I had been with for 7 or 8 mths, when I was only a couple of mths shy of my 18 th bday! And he was my first. Definitely wish I had waited on that one.

I think its good to have older advice I am 29 so not quite over hill yet but I will say I am shocked on some of the question from younger girls really shocked

I think its good. I'm 16 and I feel that if I really wanted advice, I wouldent want a stupid 14 year old giving it to me. I would want the option of having someone older than me give it to me. Thanks for all you do.

I think that yuu guys should stay on because yuu have had more experience and yuu know more then we do and thats why we ask the questions we ask. so someone older and more experienced can answer it.