Pimples? Dates? Hair? UN-coordination? Girls? Boys? Fads? Style? What is this all about anyway? What are all the changes, and why do they come so, so...randomly? These are just a few of the questions that roam through most thirteen year old's minds. Oh, there is a tad of sophistication, and intelligence is definitely on the rise, but the questions of a thirteen year old and the insecurities that align themselves with them, rage like a tsunami rushing toward an unwitting shore within the mind.
He is too lanky. She is too large. She talks too much, and he doesn't say anything at all. She is smart, and he is a jock. His hair is ugly, and her shoes are to die for. He has language like a sailor, and she is a gossip. Why is it that they all hate her, and what makes him so popular? No one can trust him, and everybody knows what kind of reputation she has. Parents are out, and friends are in, and most parents ask, “What happened to that sweet little child that used to be my daughter/son, and what alien is living in my house now?”
Maybe the reader is traveling back in his or her mind. Remember how it was? Remember the thoughts? Remember the challenges, the trials, the insecurities? Remember that those times were so different than they are now, and if they were that tough back then, what are they like now? Remember wondering what life would be like when the old age of “twenty, thirty, forty...” would arrive? Now... help a thirteen year old make it through. Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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