Mary Blakely Quotes About Adolescence

Quotes about: Adolescence

• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

• A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

  Mary Blakely

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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