Adolescent Studies Gifts

'It's probably a hormonal thing.'

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'From six to to eighteen, they're always at that age.'

Scarcity

'Well, Tommy, you've grown a foot since the last time I saw you!'

"I don't know why I worry...Baldo's just a normal boy. It's good to see him maturing...making friends...with nice girls...exploring new feelings...and desires.... You have to go home now."

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

'Since we're being so honest, perhaps I should mention that I liked you better as an egg.'

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as written and as it would have been written if David Hume had invested in a word processor,

"Wings will be cool, I guess, but I'm mostly hoping the braces and pimples fall off."

"Well, I've come this close to asking out Sylvia Sanchez. But I'm just an average guy! Nothing about me says 'I'm cool! Look at me!'"

'Beware of the teenager.'

'Dad, can I borrow the club tonight?'

Regardless children just want to fit in.

'Of course I'm depressed. I've run out of places to pierce.'

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

"Dean Williams, the grant committee approved my research grant to determine how many research grants are a waste of government money!"

"I don't know...but it seems like nothing ever changes around here. It's like we've been 15 years old forever!"

Pubertry

"Yeah, I've noticed it too: Young Master's smell has changed a lot since he's become a teenager..."

"Oh come now, darling. When I was your age, I felt different, too."

'That was quite a birthday party - we played full-contact spin-the-bottle.'

'And where have you been all day young lady? Your mother and I have been worried sick!'

'… and another thing … the only reason you know it's my birthday to begin with, is because we were all born on the same day!'

"All this running around you do at night … it’s killing your mother."

"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

A to Z Publishers: 'We justify high prices for textbooks because there is zero film rights potential...'

"I was 13 once. It was hard."

'In my day you had to reach puberty before you could act surly.'

'I think he's beginning to notice girls.He's washed his face without being asked to!'

"Shaving off your three whiskers doesn't make you older!"

'Adolescents act like babies when they aren't treated like adults!'

Carole Jean's First "Big Girl" Heels