The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp
Little children, headache; big children, heartache. – Italian Proverb
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. – Laurence J. Peter
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. – Al Bernstein
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. – Erma Bombeck
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. – Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. – William Galvin
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. – Raymond Duncan
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly. – German Proverb
In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. – Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent
The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. – Author Unknown
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. – Author Unknown
The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew. – Author Unknown
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. – Erma Bombeck
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. – Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. – Edgar W. Howe
