Keeping It Real (Like Dan)

2. Three tips I would give to parents of teenagers are: you have let us make our own mistakes and learn from them, we are going to develop our own beliefs as we grow older, and please support us even if you don´t always agree with us because life is all about learning.

7. I don believe that you can know if you love someone or not after only three days. I feel like part of loving someone comes from knowing everything about a person- their flaws, their interests, what makes them who they are and loving them through and despite it all. How are you supposed to know all of this about a person after only three days?

10. I feel like family should know their limits when it comes to getting involved in a family member´s relationship. I feel like there is a fine line between knowing about what is going on in the relationship and involving yourself in the relationship like it is your own relationship. I feel like parents should understand the difference and respect it. Parents that often over involve themselves in their child´s relationship make it ten times harder on their child when the break up happens I feel like.

12. I feel like illicit love is more appealing to us because we all want what we can´t have. When there is something in front of you that everyone is telling you that you can´t have, it makes it that much more desirable in society I feel like. I feel like this is a mind set that will last forever, it is why temptation seems so desirable.

17. My idea of a perfect day would be spent at the beach with my best friend and family. We would spend all day on the beach, laying out and playing in the beach waves, and then we would go back up to the condo and get ready to go out for dinner that evening. The beach is my happy place and I can´t imagine spending a more perfect day at the beach then with the people I love the most.

27. I feel like we teenagers are pretty hard on our parents. They are learning how to deal with everything with us for the first time just like we are and they only want what is best for us. Also, if you think it parents only know what we decide to tell them is going on in our lives, which is troubling to think about, but teenagers keep secrets and parents know that because they were once teenagers too.