Do teens and 20s have any wisdom to speak their minds?

[Anonymous]

I think they are too young to know things. They should listen before they speak.

[wolfcat87]

It depends on who they are. I was wiser than usual as a kid, so a lot of what I said did have something to offer. My kids are also pretty wise, so I listen to them as well. While none of us had the experience to address some things, and still had a lot of learning to do, that's true of people at any age. I'm not going to try to tell a truck mechanic how to do his job, because I don't have a clue and never will. But, I can advise people on what I do know, and so can more intelligent young people. There are teens-20 year olds making millions more than people 4-5 times their age ever did. They clearly know more about how some things work.

I knew more about how to love people, raise kids, get married and stay married, and how to become wealthy than many other people. I knew that age didn't mean smarter or wiser and that respect needs to be earned and not given. I also corrected others on things like whether or not looking into their eyes and smiling has anything to do with lying. There were social "norms" that were dumb, and I didn't buy into them like most people did. Kids didn't need to be hit for example. How a person looks doesn't determine their value. Being gay doesn't make a person bad. There was a lot to question. A lot of concepts older people as a whole didn't understand that some younger visionaries did.

[Changiis07]

No necessarily some experience more as young teens then other people. Not to say all are wise some are wiser than others for sure. Also depends what kind of role models they had growing up

[LazerBean]

It just depends on the quality of their upbringing and genetics. There are plenty of people in their 30s, 40s, and beyond who have not mentally matured past high School.

[bededazzle]

i think their views are very important, but the younger generation needs to work on realizing that being offended doesn’t mean much at all. without this age though, we would lose a lot of idealism

[OldBlue]

I think it’s the other way around. Most adults should listen before they speak.