Adolescence Interview Research Paper

In my now and then adolescence interview I have actually learned a lot more from my great grandmother than I thought I possibly knew. With my grandmother’s and I schedules being so busy lately, it was hard to try to find the right time for us to get together for this interview. You would think that an elderly person would just want to sit in the house all day but not her she is eighty years old and is still very active. When we had finally got together it took us only a couple of hours to really get down and finished with the interview. I can tell she was actually happy for me to ask her questions about her past even though I have before, but this time it was a bit more spirit into it.
She was very excited and she even went into more detail about her experiences when she was a teen. Once we started she told me that her teen years were the best years of her life and I quickly agreed because even though I am only twenty there …show more content…
She told me that the main difference that she sees in the current generation is that we teens aren’t disciplined enough and that we don’t follow the rules and stay out too late at night. When she was younger she used to follow her mom 's rules all the time because she knew if she didn’t she would get a whooping from her, and she didn’t want that. She also thinks that today 's teenagers are horrible and that they don’t know how to talk to people with respect. I honestly have to agree with her because when I do go out to even a fast food restaurant the workers at the drive through windows always seem to have an attitude and talk to you any kind of way. I also do think that her generation was better because all of the new things that 's happening out there now is something that they didn’t go through mostly because their parents disciplined them. Then again not to say they didn’t do anything bad because every generation has its bad