You sound like you are looking for two things here: 1)
intro ideas, and 2) overall ideas for your paper.
1. Think
about the voice of this piece as you begin. Is it to be a personal narrative? If so,
open with a word picture of a teen's life, or even a teen's room that reflects all these
stresses. Is it to be an expository academic essay? Find some statistics that
demonstrates teens growing up so fast... teens working today compared to 20 years ago,
teens caring for adults in the home as compared to 20 years
ago.
2. Honestly, your life today in terms of responsibilty
is much easier than those of generations before you as pointed out above. So, let's look
at some of those things that have robbed you of youth. School responsibilities today
that are more demanding include your extra-curricular activities. Today, students in
sports must remain in that sport year-round to be competitive in it. Academics are
competitive in highly populated parent college educated areas, but not so much in rural
America or inner-city America. Home responsibilities today may include caring for
siblings, an ill-parent, or being the missing parent in single-parent homes. This is
different because we do not equip you to have these skills as parents or teachers. In
other generations that preceded you, parents and children worked together to learn
care-taking skills. Work rarely comes into play for teens today because of the economy,
they are fighting out-of-work adults for employment. Teens who do have jobs and who
juggle that with everything else (school, helping at home, and extra-curricular
activities) are certainly feeling the loss of youth.
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