Can Teens & Parents See Eye to Eye?

Depressions up, anxiety's up, and that comes from a lack of innocence right?

Hi, I'm Mateo, I'm sixteen and I build robots.

I'm Taylor, I'm eighteen, and I'm really passionate about singing and about music.

Hi, I'm Isabella, I'm sixteen, and I fly a plane which is a Cessna 172.

Hi I'm Fanny, and I am not going to say my age, and I'm a Film Maker.

I'm Elizabeth, I'm thirty-nine plus one, and I am a Film Director.

I'm Jerimiah, I'm forty-one. I'm a Regional Sales Manager for a Telecom Company.

(The older you are, the more you know.)

(Mateo): Well I'll start. Right now I'm learning a new thing every day, but if I had a lot more years, then by the time I'm ninety, I'll know every thing.

(Isabella): Yeah, Exactly.

(Taylor) Yeah, just simple things with learning like how people around you act, you learn so much that you're not going to learn as a ten-year-old.

(Elizabeth): I think as parents, I'd like to say that i feel I know nothing. I mean literally, every day, i say to you, "I'm just guessing".

And the older I've got, the more I've realised that everybody else around me is winging it. And they dont know everything either.

And we're all just trying our best.

(Jerimiah): When you're young you're like, "I know everything, about everything". You know?

Now, from what I know to what I don't know, those two things are completely on opposite ends of the spectrum for me.

(Teens today are less innocent.)

(Jerimiah): All teens are rotten people.

But It's forced on you a lot at an earlier age. Online, for teen boys, they can find horrible images everywhere.

(Taylor): I definitely do agree that there is a lot more exposure.

It's not an intentional thing, I don't think kids are just worse, It's just easier to get caught up in bad situations.

(Mateo): Okay. I personally think that we are more innocent now. Parents, you guys could get away with a lot more back in the day.

(Fanny): Yeah, we were naughty. We did a lot of things our parents never knew!

But now I can check on his phone where he's at.

(Jerimiah): But sometimes you go down that rabbit hole, where you think your kid is super innocent,

(Fanny): Oh that's true!

and then you realize "Oh whats this they have two Snapchat's? What's this other Snapchat? Whats this other Instagram?"

"Oh I have one you don't know about. Everbody has one."

I think you have to be more devious.

(Mateo) Well, this one time I got Instagram and all my friends added me.

They added me to the first Instagram account, that your parents don't see.

And I was slightly disappointed in them as people.

(Fanny): I didn't know you had Instagram, see?

(Mateo): I got rid of it.

(Elizabeth): No, but I think you have to give credit to some of the kids, I do!

I think there are some kids who haven't got two Instagrams.

And actually, trust is the biggest element for me. As a parent, i trust her.

(Jerimiah): Yeah, I mean the question was do you think you're teen is innocent?

But when i say teen's

(Elizabeth): But I still think It's 50/50 you'll stand your friends.

Suicide rates are up, depression's up, anxiety's up but that comes from a lack of innocence right?

(Elizabeth): i think it was but we didn't know about it!

(Jerimiah) And they're not ready to deal with it.

(Elizabeth): I think they were there!

I know three or four people in my class that had those problems but they weren't spoken of.

I definetely agree that it's more. I do.

(There are things that the other side doesn't know about me.)