I’m a teenager and the Baillieu government is f*ckedCrikey work experience kid and angry teen Ruby Krupka writes on societal changes made under the Baillieu government, from on-the-spot swearing fines to openly gay students being allowed to get expelled from religious schools.
Teenagers
One naked photo, many lives ruined
One day, a 14 year old girl sent a picture of herself naked to her boyfriend. Within weeks the entire school had seen the photo, children were charged with child pornography distribution and an entire community was battling the distressing effects of child ‘sexting’.
Video of the Day: Wedgies, geeks and rodents: bullies in the ’80s
“You’re dead meat, you nerd!” yells the bully as he trips over/throws in a pool/gives a wedgie to the dorky kid in front of the cute girl, in this magnificent tribute to the bullies from ’80s teen movies.
You know, like, whatever: the fiasco of filler words
Whether it’s used instead of um, a pause or just while you grasp around for something witty to say, Christopher Hitchen explores how the grammar battle was lost with uptalk and filler words. And it’s not just teens who are to blame.
Sweet sixteen and never been polled
It’s absurd to claim 16 year olds are not capable of having political opinions and voting on them, says Hugh Jorgensen
Want to read Leigh Sales diary?
ABC journo Leigh Sales takes a peek into her self absorbed (but with meticulously handwriting!) teenage diary, examining her rants against her dad and the most popular kids in school.
Why aren’t teens tweeting? 
Over diagnosis, wrong treatments: the mess of depression
Mental health issues — particularly depression and the increase in its over diagnosis — are turning young men into “the canaries in the coal mines of our toxic culture”, writes Miranda Devine.
Nice girls do finish first
Good girls have thankfully replaced raunch culture as the latest teen girl fad. Except, niceness has its issues too — like paralysing self-criticism, writes Marisa Meltzer.
Guy Rundle: Vale John Hughes, but he ain’t no Budd Schulberg
Last week one of the most important figures in youth culture passed on. And it wasn’t John Hughes (though he did ‘get’ teens better than they got themselves).
Stats confirm teens don’t tweet
It’s been posited before, but new Nielsen figures have confirmed: Twitter is not hot with da yoof, with 84% of the social media service’s phenomenal growth this year coming from people aged 25 and over.
Unpicking claims in the media about suicide and depression
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg has been making some big statements lately about depression and suicide, following the deaths of several young people in Geelong. How damaging are his claims?
Media frenzy appoints teenage digital guru
The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with the news that Twitter was regarded by one 15-year-old from London as being for old people. That’s news?
Teen pregnancy has benefits
Teen mothers often end up with better life outcomes than those in similar socioeconomic circumstances that do not fall pregnant as teenagers, reports Danielle McKay.
Who likes thirteen year old girls?
Loads of people!
