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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. At this remove in time, this book returns the reader to the period when the adult, not the teenager, had the moral and sociological high ground. The amount of simple ageism, and the criticism of teenagers for being, not in control of their hormones, or the family finances, creates many of the punchlines. Armour is an humane parent, but none-the-less, the possibility of cash to maintain the family teenagers led to the creation of this piece of work. If more teenagers read it, even now, they might be easier to live with, or possibly understand their parents better. I read it with glee, because the brutal poverty in which I lived had given me a hunger to read about those better off than myself, for escapism. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Excerpt from Through Darkest Adolescence: With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in CheckbookI, too, was troubled by the first stirrings of sex, though not until I was about fourteen. Up to that time I thought there was no difference between boys and girls except that boys could run faster and throw a ball farther. Also, girls were always putting their hands up in class, and not just when they wanted to leave the room. Nowadays boys begin getting ideas about girls when they are ten or eleven, and by the age I was starting to catch on they are already going steady.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Armour is at his best in the opening chapter where he discusses adolescence as a disease, a disease that is not contagious and that you get only once, although it can hang on for several years. For a few people, he warns, it can last much longer, as among those people who act like teenagers well into middle age. After writing about some of the more serious symptoms of this disease, he concludes, "Some day a Dr. Salk will probably come along with a vaccine for adolescence. If so, the only question will be which Nobel Prize he should get -- the one for medicine or the one for peace."
From there, he moves on to such topics as getting a chance at the bathroom when there are teens in the house, teen parties, what to do when your kids are old enough to drive and problems related to cutting hair and straightening teeth. He uses his own son and daughter as examples, which must have embarrassed them terribly. However, since he was born in 1906, his kids may have been well into adulthood by 1963.
Armour wrote light verse to rival that of his contemporary, Ogden Nash. Unfortunately some of his poems are often wrongly attributed to Nash. We get a nice sampling of his verse scattered throughout this book. Here is one example:
We've only a teen-age daughter,
A two-legged creature indeed,
And yet from the shoes
She incessantly strews,
You'd think we've a centipede.
Armour's wit seems to fail him late in his book when he addresses the subjects of smoking and drinking. His strategy for discouraging these behaviors is to encourage his kids to smoke cigars and consume large quantities of alcohol on the theory that after this they will not want to smoke or drink at all. Of course, this strategy fails. None of this misbehavior, and I'm referring to that of the parent, seems funny now, and I doubt that it was funny even in 1963.
However I do recall that when I was a little boy my father offered me a sip of his beer. I cried loudly at the taste, and my mother came running from the kitchen, giving Dad a firm lecture when she found out what had happened. But I have never wanted a beer since. So maybe Armour's strange strategy might have worked if he had only tried it a decade earlier. ( )