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There are a lot of stereotypes of youth/young people. After reading the three articles, one stereotype that stuck out was that youth are inexperienced. Another stereotype is that youth are lazy, and are defiant towards those that are older than them.
According to the reading by Bogad, when youth started to attend public school more and not stay at home and help there, they began to be with more people their age and settle into their adolescence.
In the article by Steinberg, it was mentioned people feared what youth would do next- and they were always wild, even a "nightmare" to adults.In the third article written by Meyerson, black females are perceived older than what they are at a very young age. The article told of one girl who was arrested for using a student subway card because the police thought she was older than what she said- based on her appearance, which ended up making her go into therapy because of the ordeal she was put through.
I assume stereotypes of youth are because many people look at kids at just that- kids. No matter how old some people are, they neglect the experiences and life lessons they have learned at young ages and don't take in to account if they had to support their family, work from a very young age, saw events in their early lives that changed them forever, or were just flat out very mature for their age. Many adults and a lot of society don't give the youth the credit they deserve- they are very capable of many great things!
As a director of a child care center, I am in charge of 30 teachers. I often find that older staff have a hard time following my direction or instructions because they have had a larger timeline of experience than I have in this childcare field.
According to the reading by Bogad, when youth started to attend public school more and not stay at home and help there, they began to be with more people their age and settle into their adolescence.
In the article by Steinberg, it was mentioned people feared what youth would do next- and they were always wild, even a "nightmare" to adults.In the third article written by Meyerson, black females are perceived older than what they are at a very young age. The article told of one girl who was arrested for using a student subway card because the police thought she was older than what she said- based on her appearance, which ended up making her go into therapy because of the ordeal she was put through.
I assume stereotypes of youth are because many people look at kids at just that- kids. No matter how old some people are, they neglect the experiences and life lessons they have learned at young ages and don't take in to account if they had to support their family, work from a very young age, saw events in their early lives that changed them forever, or were just flat out very mature for their age. Many adults and a lot of society don't give the youth the credit they deserve- they are very capable of many great things!
As a director of a child care center, I am in charge of 30 teachers. I often find that older staff have a hard time following my direction or instructions because they have had a larger timeline of experience than I have in this childcare field.
I loved your blog and how you related the articles to your own work. I agree with everything you said, especially when you wrote, "many adults don't give youth the credit they deserve."
ReplyDeleteThis was the part I found interesting too! I also find interesting the same issue at work, some of the employees at my job have issues taking orders from me and my boss because we are so young too.
DeleteThanks for your post Lauren. I want to know more about your experience managing teachers who are older than you and may have more experience. For example, what language/ behaviors indicate that teachers have a hard time following your instructions? How do you feel you are perceived? How do you react or push back against those stereotypes?
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