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Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By Clare D. Smith Growing Up Is Often Tiring Task " t sometimes think they will lose their minds If John or Mary doesn't show a little activity around the house, remember it takes a lot of energy to grow two or three Inches In a year. I have heard businessmen ad women complain that they are completely "bushed" after a day at the office. And none of them have engaged in the type of physical phys-ical labor that would exhaust them. The reason they are "bushed" is that mental activity has tired them physically. Your teenager is also going through great mental development. Every minute of his day he grows mentally as well as physically. He can get just as tired as you from this mental activity. Less scolding and complaining on the part of parents (and a few more vitamins), might well mean more pleasant relations on the part of all concerned. 7'ERY often parents will complain com-plain that John and Mary, their teenage children, are "too lazy to breathe." This complaint is often accompanied by the observation ob-servation that their children seem to spend every minute that they are not engaged in sports sprawled op beds, chairs or couches. Parents have forgotten, I think, that they too wsnt through this difficult stage. The fact is your teenager Is probably "plain tired." True, they spend hours swimming, swim-ming, playing tennis, baseball and taking part In other teenage activities. ac-tivities. This of course uses up a great part of their energy. But another an-other great amount of their energy ener-gy is used up in the process of "growing." I suggest that thoss parents who |