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Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C. D. Smith Parents Are Part Of This World We Live In others are assisting as a part of family responsibility. Wherever you may happen to live, teenagers, remember this: your parents are an important part of this modern generation of ours. If they look back to the past, or recall it often, they have every right for they have seen many wonderful things come about in this world of ours (just as you will certainly see future events and happenings that will become lasting last-ing memories). The work and effort of our forefathers fore-fathers resulted in many of the modern conveniences and the high standard of living we enjoy today. to-day. Our forefathers worked and toiled as children because in their day It was necessary. In this modern mod-ern world, perhaps your family could get along if you contributed no effort at all; if you did nothing about the home or farm. Yet, idleness idle-ness would prepare you only for trouble as every wise parent knows quite well. If yoa havs a teenae problem you want te discuss, or an observation to make, addreas your letter to FOR ANI ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRA-SKF0BI, KY. A "disgusted" teenager writes: "My parents are always telling me how lucky I am to have so few jobs to do around the farm. I have to listen for hours to their talk about how they got up before daylight, day-light, did their chores and walked over a mile to school and then came home from school to do more chores until way after dark. Can't they realize times have changed and won't they change with it? The things they talk about belong to another generation." genera-tion." Timti have changid, if$ true, but nonetheless, in many sections of this great and spacious land of ours, teenagers teen-agers are growing up in just the same fashion as your.parents did. We live in a modern world, true enough, but it is not completely modern. Farms have been mechanized with a great reduction reduc-tion in the amount of labor a farmer and his family have to do, but here again, mechanization does not extend to every farm, in every State. And, even though many farms are mechanized mecha-nized completely, many teenagers who live in rural areas have "chores" to do before and after school. Some, lihe 4-H projects, are of their own choosing. |