The Importance of Being an Unhappy Teenager
   At the root of adolescent sorrow and rage is the recognition that life
   The first response of the teenager is to think themselves uniquely
   adolescence can give way to the enormous eloquence of the poetry,
   diaries and songs of later teenagehood. The most beautiful pieces of
   mid-adolescence if one is to stand any chance of making a go of the
   Another key realisation of adolescence is that one hates one’s parents.
   their teenage children turn around and tell them at the top of their
   child knows they are loved. The really worrying teenagers aren’t those
   Another source of teenage sorrow is how many big questions suddenly
   questioning too is vital. The sort of questions that adolescents raise
   fairly? Adolescents are natural philosophers. The true end-point of
   adolescence is not, as it’s sometimes suggested, that one stops asking
   Lastly, and most poignantly, teenagers tend to hate themselves. They
   adolescence, one of its glories is that the suffering it inflicts is