If you could go back in time and talk to yourself as a teenager,

Be smart with who you hang out with, who you believe. get serious about school. don't smoke. Don't put up with anyones crap.

Hi mtdewgurl74! Oh, I would be advising myself the exact opposite. haha..I have always been focused in school and although I have a well balanced social and school life, I never dared to have any relationship with boys when I was a teenager. The first relationship I had was when I was 2 months short of being 20. LOL! I was scared then to have any commitment with boys even if there have been handsome and intelligent suitors who were courting me that time. So, if I can go back in time, I will tell myself that it is right to fall in love as long as I know my limitations. Take care and have a great day! lovelots..faith

Hello mtdewgurl74,do you really want to know my answer? lolo Here go ,will if i could go back and talk to myself . i would say wildcat straighten your self up,i know you having it kind of rough rigth now,but hold on a little bit longer ok girl.and i would tell myself no to get married to any body tell i know that i love them.and i would tell myself to wait a while before you have kids.i love my 9 kids dont get me wrong but i could have give them abetter life.

It's ironic that I ran into this discussion. I was asking myself this same question awhile back, If I could go back in time and give myself advice. what would I tell myself as a teen? Well first would be not to fear life,take more chances and don't listen to most of my family because they are mostly idiots..LOL.. I use to value my family when I was younger and I wished I didn't as much because they were very self absorbed and negative towards me about everything I had hopes and dreams about, not very supporting about anything. I didn't learn until my 20's that I didn't need anyone's approval not even my family's .

I would ground me!

For me, I would have to change to the time when I was back in year 7 in school back to when I was a new kid and I felt like I was welcome and also having alot of fun before a few things went wrong in my life and also to go back to the times to fix my mistakes that I have made in the past (which I would rather not mention).

thanks for best response hon.

I would love to say I would gor back to that age and concentrate on my studies but I am just not that bright. My siblings were able to apply themselves and accomplish great things. I was simply not scholastically inclined. Learning was quite difficult for me beyond the basics. My comprehension of subjects is way, way below par. I cannot take things in either..the process does not work for me unless I am 110% curious and interested. I would certainly wish to avoid my marriages but I don't know what an alternative life for me would ber ike; I'd probably still manage to screw things up.

I think I would go back to when I was 17 or 18, and do two things. 1) Tell myself to not go to the big college. That I should have gone to the local community college since that's where I ended up graduating from anyway. It would have saved me a whole lot of money in the end. 2) Stick with only one credit card. Not to get so many. You'd be a lot better off later in life.

All good advice. But really, as teens do you think we would listen to our older, wiser selves? lol Probably not. I did alright in school. I'd have convinced myself to finish college and not my dad screw it up for me. I'd also said to stay away from the bad boys, and wait for my hubby to come along.

very good question. im sure lots of people would do lots different. but then after watching the butterfly effect movie, not sure i keep thinking tho. id look my last hubby up and not marry those other losers

I would be more likely to sit back an observe myself. That way, I could remember more of how I was as a teenager and how my parents handled things. I could bring that knowledge into my current life and put it to use. I would not want my life as it is now to change, but I wouldn't mind having a bit more information when it comes to raising my own kids and who better to get that advice from than your own parents. Chances are that they don't remember every little detail of how things were, but if I could see it for myself, then I would know.

If I could go back to my teenage life I would change only one thing: that is I should have let my great grandmother who raised me from 2 to 16 years old to have accompanied me during the graduation march. I did a good job during my teenage years and I have no regrets with what I did. I'm not pulling a leg but I graduated with the highest honor and I was consistent for four years. I was always with my great grandmother every recognition day that is why I ask for my grand mother (her son's wife) to be the one to accompany me instead of my great grandmother. I just want someone new and besides I thought that would be okay for my great grandmother. After one and a half months since I graduated, my great grandmother passed away. So when given the chance to go back in my teenage years, I would choose to be accompanied by my great grandmother because that was her last march with me and my last time to be with her in a very special occasion. I was 15 when I graduated in high school and the day after my graduation is my 16th birthday which was celebrated with lots of foods and guests. That was the last birthday I was with my great grandmother. Lesson learned anyway is that we should always value the people around us especially the person we are very close to. We should not take for granted every single day or occasion we can be with them. Life is short so we must always cherish every moment they are with us.

If I have the chance to go back in my teenager life, I will probably say "dont waste your time boy, get along with the flow of life and prove something to yourself. make something new." I say that because I always paly online game and prove nothing, my life in teenager is so boring so I suggest "make soething new". To make my life more enjoyable. God bless..

I would tell myself not to be so afraid of change, welcome it, change is good and it is healthy. It is okay to walk into the unknown so you could grow as a person and experience new things.

When I was a teenager I had yet to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My childhood and teenage years were filled with long periods of genuine despair. At the time, I thought everyone else always felt like I did, they just knew how to handle it better. So if I were to back, I'd tell myself that "this too shall pass." That one day someone was going to help figure out why there was such despair in my life. The only thing that kept me from harming myself was that I was a Christian, and I didn't want to hurt my mother. Because at times, I honestly had convinced myself I would be doing them a favor. I truly believed that at the time.

There's three things I would do differently. Go for help to get away from my mother as a child, get my education and don't get married ever.

I've often thought about the idea of going back and talking to my teenage self. But then I wonder what things I have in my life now that wouldn't be if I could change the young me. While life is not perfect, we live paycheck to paycheck, and are now suffering the effects of the down turn economy, I love my family, have a house free of any mortgage and I enjoy spending time with the friends I have. The one thing I regret as a teenager is turning down the chance for free piano lessons. I was learning to play the guitar, mostly self taught, and the person offering the piano lessons was a dowdy old lady. The guitar eventually went by the wayside and was sold in a yard sale. About 15 years ago I bought myself another one and started up on lessons again but somehow it wound up boxed up in the back of my closet. I would go back to lets say 14 and tell the young me to take the opportunity for free piano lessons and to keep up with playing the guitar. I would truly enjoy playing even for just my own enjoyment.

well, if you really want to know what advice would I give myself, then I can tell you that, I would prefer to more study and less computer work. I would choose the age of 14 years to go back to. thank you for your discussion.

i still consider myself teenager..hehehe