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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-11-18, Page 22AGYeditUnion Registexed. Home Ownership Savings Plan... ...Planning for Your Kind of Home. *Deadline day for the 1081 taxation year is Ditrember:31, 19111. * We pay; a competitive rate of Interest Into your plan. * We have no administration charges, and no withdrawal charge after 4 months. *Save on your income tax your deposit to your 01.14.00S.P. reduces your taxable income. • Clinton Community -CREDIT UNION '711 ONTARIO CLINTON 442-3457 24/ years of service - 374 MAIN SOUTH c- extra' . 23s-$646 *ate a part of kali. The Expositor's Annual Christmas Shopping Issue, is coming Novpmber 25 Mpibhants With only , 24 shopping days 'tit Christmas, districi Shoppers look to the ExpoOor),$)Iopping issue for sugOestians 'for their Christmas buying. 1111 The Expositor Shopping Issue, with eJitira copies to cover the-area,- brings -the,rnessage of Seaforth :arid area just in timejor Christmas Gift Buying! ,t..07111,111VIr.", Reserve your space now -e littron ISTMAS THE HURON EXPOSITOR, NOVEMBER 1.11 1981 a teenager is hard, BY PATRICIA ROMER "When are you ever going to grow up? Act your age! Stay young as long as you can. Don't throw your youth These tore helpful little pieces of advice given to children, especially teenag- ers, by ads its. When you hear so much. how are you. supposed to understand the %tire point of becoming an adult? It is pretty confusing. Children live in a-world of "don't touch". "wait until yeu are older" and "maybe someday when you're big' ft's confusimenough as it is, hut once you get into your teens. it is a pretty tough world. We have gone from a child to a grade five moron, to a teeny bopper to a graduate of puklic school to an itsy bitty miner and so on. The pressure from friends and family becomes pretty great. Not that it bothers us at all because we figure we are old and mature enough to handle ail of this. If that isn'f- enough. we start to get taller, our arms become too long for the rest of our bodies. our feet have forgot- ten how to walk and we've become great klutzes. Doing all of this is 'worse when you are trying to impress a classmate of the opposite sex. If you ask akid if they like school, you probably get a for planning our future edu- melon and employment. Even now, we have to plan our work. work our plans and make sure that our marks are good enough in school that we can go on to college or university in a few years. Teenagers also have to de- cide what kind of work they would like tad° once they arc through school, even when they are in grade tune. With some kind of an idea of his or her future, a student has to choose subjects in high school that will give him background in his career. If only school was the only problem that teens have to worry about. Believe me, it isn't. As soon as a kid starts • to go out on weekends. take part in spirts, enjoy roller- skating. going to hockey games. movies, swimming etc,. things get to be pretty expensive. The SS allowance that particular kid was get- ting 'before lasted through the week fairly well, paying for birthday presents. Christ- mas presents, chocolate bars, comic. Woks and the mid dollar spent on toys, But S5 might last a teenager a night at a dance or movie. although I doubt it. When guys turn 16 and get their Hansa. they figure it is time to find a girl friend and start dating. This means paying for twb people not just one. The gas money for the car costs enough and then it wouldh't be right, to take a girl on a date without treating her, so they think. Not that the guys are the'Only ones who go to expense, on dates. The girl doesn't pay fur the hamburg or the admission, but the boy doesn't have to invest in mascara or nylons for thS date., area bTi th much little itttol e a ff eoxrped nosneas regular basis so it is necessary for some teenag- ers to go out and find themselves .a lob. • Jobs are scarce enough in large cities where there are many businesses, but in a small town tike'Seaforth it is worse. There are lots Of kids at- the high school asking about job openings around town, applications, 'etc.They need the money and the job but there just aren't enough jobs available. Sure, teens ers can turn back to their ol - pastime babysitting to carp few more dollars, but most people need babysitters at night or on a weekend and most teenagers go out at these times and have plans. For boys, they could always shovel snow, rake-leaves and cut lawns but; most teenage boys aren't energetic enough to take the time out and would rather find a part time job. Getting a job is a big responsibility, one. that most r teenagers try to do. Parents encourage their children to do well in school, try and get ,a part tithe job, have many friends and to get their license. The only proli- km is when their children de all of these at the same time. A part thnejob and gOing out with friends takes up study- ing tire, However, not hay- ing a Part tong, job would mean it bigger allowance and fewer responsibilities, and no, friends would mean an unhappy child. These things are all things that teenagers and parents run into. It's not the easiest thing in the world fur parents to understand their teens. And it isn't easy for teenagers to understand their parents. Trying to keep up a good reputation and have friends is also a --big part of a teenager's life. Most every- one knows that, teenagers try alcohol andt, smoking when they are in their early teens. Some like it and continue to either drink cir Smoke on occasion. This is where there is peer oressure. Every teen- agers Want a good reputat- ion and if it means smoking or drinking or quitting either, they will do it. It's all a part of growing up. Being classified as a teen-, ager is also kind of tough at limes. Many times when there is an accident with a teenager involved, with a more ex- perienced driver. people as- sume that it was the teenag- er's inexperience of driving and perhaps drinking and driving that caused the ac- cident just becauSe •teenag- ers have been knOwtt to do so in the paSt. This is.Only one example of classifying teen, agers aS a group. Being a teenager is hard work. Sure we may be hard to understand and we Sure don't look like we are in any pain but let's , just spy that we're taking •responsibilities and preparing.. for the day when we are 19 and finally considered an adult. Happy Birthday Jim Crowley, 5, on Tues- day, Nov. 24. Happy Birthday to Jeffrey Tremeer who was 6 on November 12. If you know of anyone celebrating send their name age and birthday to: Birthday Notices, Box .69. Seaforth or phone 527-0140. WHEELCHAIR TABLES DONATED - Wheelchair patients at SeafOrth Community Hospital now have work tables to use, thanks to a donation from-the Huron Unit of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Huron-president Joyce Schenck,. teft, of Goderich, presented the tables. Patient Mark Smale, 8, tries one out while director of nursing Shirley Ring, right, and Doreen Johnston RN, look on. Five of the tables, 'made by Stroke Club members at Huronview are being dOnated to each county hospital, marking the year of the disabled. (Photo by White) negative response although there will be something good that comes out Of the reply. School gives kids a lot of hassles every day. About three times a week I threaten to myself to drop a subject at high school, always a differ- ent subject. It depends which one I am having a test on. • This is where we have to start taking responsibilities Kids, teens, tweens