Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.
I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.
When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.
Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.