Teenagers will have rowdy, drunken parties. So why not let them?
It may be more newsworthy when big, posh houses fall victim to the dreaded 'Facebook party', but a universal truth applies: if parents are in on the mayhem, there will probably be less of it, argues 16-year-old Mancunian Lizzie Deane
Teenagers at a party. Photograph: Lisa Peardon/Getty Images
"A warm welcome awaits you in Ottery St Mary. Nestling in the glorious Otter valley, it is one of the most historic towns in Devon with nostalgia in every stone."
Just precious, isn't it? I've never had the pleasure of visiting this idyllic town, birthplace of celebrated romantic poet Coleridge, where every day – indeed, three times a day – 'Ottregians' gather to sing their Old Ottery song: "O! Ottery dear! O! Ottery fair!" they cry, "My heart goes out to thee. Thou art my home, wher'er I roam, The West! The West for me!"
Last Saturday night though, dear old Ottery was disturbed by a rowdy teenage party. Fear not, however – although this despicable instance of hedonism was so abysmally noisy it was heard by villagers three miles away with "no reprieve whatsoever", at least it was held in a stately home. Another unconventional feature of this particular teen party was that the culprit made a full public apology that has since been published in several national newspapers.
Given these unusual circumstances, perhaps we youths should be let off; it was one party-gone-wrong, right? Except there are a string of these parties that have got just a bit too wild. Those responsible are almost always people my age, 16 – and usually, believe it or not, they are completely innocent of everything other than maybe naivety and occasionally stupidity. Last month a million-pound house in Highgate was trashed after the unfortunate host posted his party on Facebook – presumably not realising it could be seen by anyone. Social media does, of course, play its part in these revellings but, in my experience, old-fashioned word-of-mouth can be just as damaging.
When analysing this text, teenagers are represented very negative in the media, mostly being portrayed as 'party animals' but also tend to do a lot of drugs. This is surely not good for teenagers as the media portrays the stereotypes of teenagers to be very negative and this puts a huge affect on teenagers as this would make the public judge them in a different way. This is a very dominant view and really does put a bad affect on teenagers. When linked to socio-economic classification the teenagers that would be linked to this stereotype would be D1, reason being is that these teenagers wealth would most likely see them be living in an estate which would most likely influence them to do crime and drugs as estate's are portrayed in the media to be negative places that influences crimes and drugs.
It may be more newsworthy when big, posh houses fall victim to the dreaded 'Facebook party', but a universal truth applies: if parents are in on the mayhem, there will probably be less of it, argues 16-year-old Mancunian Lizzie Deane
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Teenagers at a party. Photograph: Lisa Peardon/Getty Images
"A warm welcome awaits you in Ottery St Mary. Nestling in the glorious Otter valley, it is one of the most historic towns in Devon with nostalgia in every stone."
Just precious, isn't it? I've never had the pleasure of visiting this idyllic town, birthplace of celebrated romantic poet Coleridge, where every day – indeed, three times a day – 'Ottregians' gather to sing their Old Ottery song: "O! Ottery dear! O! Ottery fair!" they cry, "My heart goes out to thee. Thou art my home, wher'er I roam, The West! The West for me!"
Last Saturday night though, dear old Ottery was disturbed by a rowdy teenage party. Fear not, however – although this despicable instance of hedonism was so abysmally noisy it was heard by villagers three miles away with "no reprieve whatsoever", at least it was held in a stately home. Another unconventional feature of this particular teen party was that the culprit made a full public apology that has since been published in several national newspapers.
Given these unusual circumstances, perhaps we youths should be let off; it was one party-gone-wrong, right? Except there are a string of these parties that have got just a bit too wild. Those responsible are almost always people my age, 16 – and usually, believe it or not, they are completely innocent of everything other than maybe naivety and occasionally stupidity. Last month a million-pound house in Highgate was trashed after the unfortunate host posted his party on Facebook – presumably not realising it could be seen by anyone. Social media does, of course, play its part in these revellings but, in my experience, old-fashioned word-of-mouth can be just as damaging.
When analysing this text, teenagers are represented very negative in the media, mostly being portrayed as 'party animals' but also tend to do a lot of drugs. This is surely not good for teenagers as the media portrays the stereotypes of teenagers to be very negative and this puts a huge affect on teenagers as this would make the public judge them in a different way. This is a very dominant view and really does put a bad affect on teenagers. When linked to socio-economic classification the teenagers that would be linked to this stereotype would be D1, reason being is that these teenagers wealth would most likely see them be living in an estate which would most likely influence them to do crime and drugs as estate's are portrayed in the media to be negative places that influences crimes and drugs.
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