Top Ten Reasons Why Elders are Better Than Teenagers

Even though I am a teenager myself, I still would agree with this for the following reasons. Please don’t get offended. Not all teens act like this, just a majority of them.
The Top Ten
1 Elders are more grateful
2 Teenagers are more likely to act immaturely

It drives me crazy!

3 Elders have better taste in music

Although I have the same basic taste as said Elders, to a degree (Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley,) I'm pretty sure I'm close to in a class by myself.

Just to put this into perspective my grandmother grew up before rock music was even really a thing let alone hip hop.

Can I say how surprised I am that so many teenagers here listen to rock? Most teenagers I know listen to pop and rap

4 Elders have better humor

Five words: ENOUGH WITH THE TOILET HUMOR! (Sorry about the all-caps, but it's to drive home a point.) Most people I know have made some crude jokes (myself included) that are either just stupid Captain Underpants style toilet humor or (and this excludes me,) they would go the extra mile and start joking about sex. I'm very disappointed in my age group.

Teens often act stupid to be funny when they’re not. Elders usually be funny without acting stupid.

5 Elders are less likely to make fun of gay people

Although I'm as straight as a stick, I am not homophobic or anything. (Although I don't agree with them as far as how marriage should be.)

Why do so many teenagers think that being gay is wrong? It’s normal. I am 14 and I am not against gays.

6 Teenagers are more profane

Although I know where this is coming from, and have had some pretty foul-mouthed friends, it's a rare occasion when I say the alternative to, "dang" and if I say that much, you know I'm in a foul mood. It's rare that I go beyond that.

I know that some elders curse a lot but teens think it’s cool to do so and a lot of them think it would kill them to go two seconds without an f word coming out if their mouth. It exasperates me!

7 Elders care more about following rules more

This is maybe the only item in this list that puts me with the rest of the world's teenagers. But generally speaking, I'm pretty tame, I imagine.

8 Teenagers are louder

True, but I'm a pretty quiet dude. ...The majority of teens are a different story, though.

9 Teenagers are more addicted to technology

True. I am on my phone for about two hours for recreation. As great as this website (or the Internet as a whole) is, there are better things out there.

Although I think I am as well, I still care about my family and would do stuff with them unlike some other teens.

10 Elders are more optimistic
The Contenders
11 Elders have better taste in television shows
12 Elders actually care about ethics

Seeing as I score on average (and I kid you not,) 54 for my mental age, give or take a year, I care about ethics just as much as elders, and I often feel like a middle-aged man crammed into a 19-year-old body. (I'm exaggerating a little, but things like pornography and a few others bother me, and I'm the only guy who thinks like that. Or at least that was the case in grade school. Now...I don't know.)

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