Youth Advocate Pillows

"We don't make cookies anymore - I'm selling Girl Scout apps."

Girl to mother: 'Don't call me a teenager. From now on, I want to be referred to as a pre-adult.'

Social Security or Bust.

'I just think everyone in the family should have the same rights and privileges.'

"What I really need, Santa, is a moral compass."

'Do you think children are growing up too fast?' 'Yes Mummy.'

'Hmmphhhh ... High on Life. Now that's something the government ought to regulate.'

'Don't get me wrong, I love children. I'm just not ready to hire them.'

'We're not called young offenders social workers any more. I'm a scum whisperer.'

'If youth is so important why didn't god give the ten commandments to someone younger?'

The voice of youth

Drop-In Centre

Gen Z

"There aren't many jobs for teenagers these days."

"Are we worried about John McCain's appeal to young people?"

'All of my have had abortions.'

"Fellas, I invited Max here to give us a fresh, millennial take on how to get out of the inning."

The Minor Issue

"Do you think our son is growing up too fast?"

Adult Crime, Not Adult Logic

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Coronavirus Impact on Children

"Should we put down what we think is right, or what we think you think is right?"

'We never should have bought him that little lawyer kit. Suddenly, everything I ask him to do is capricious or arbitrary.'

'He's at a very impressionable age.'

"I adore kids, but I also adore Netflix."

"Look, I know the other team is taller than we are...but I'm pretty sure this isn't allowed."

"There are no dumb questions, Billy, but there are plenty of dumb answers!"

"The witness will confine his 'Knock knock' answers to 'Who's there?'"

Welcome to your new English Class.

"What I miss during school holidays is not going out on strike every Friday."

Mentoring Unit: 'Go on! You can do it! You can be a mentor!'

The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Lawyer - "Father Desmond, we need an exorcism."

"Sorry, but no. I can't lend you a student to help clean up your yard."

'Young players have a tendency to forget fundamentals over the winter.'