chucky cheese games: People say 13 year olds are little kids, and I disagree. Little kids want to go to chucky cheeses, Little kids dont have raging hormones, little kids cant have sex, little kids cant grow pubic hair. I wouldnt call teens adults, but theyre are far from being kids. I cant believe it when people say they're shocked when 13 year olds drink, have sex and do drugs........how long do you think that soda pop and skittles were gonna entertain teens? Teens have a diffrent mindset than kids.|||Spoken like a true young teen or tween. My 12 y.o. daughter gets terribly offended if we refer to her as a 'child' or a 'kid', but she's certainly not an adult and her attitude and behaviour show it. j0e|||Thankyou. Lots of people think that teens having sex and drinking is a huge thing. I dont really think it is. As long as they are fully aware of the problems they cause, there is no problem in them exploring. Teens have hormones that are gonna want to make them touch eachother, theres no stopping that. Everyone matures at different ages, so no one really has any right to tell you what your doing is wrong. Some people say, if you have sex you have to be able to be finanicially set up for having a baby. Well, as long as your protected and you're educated about the problems that could happen, i.e std's, children, lung cancer if your smoking, the effects of drugs..etc its not really a huge problem. Some 25 year olds arent financially secure enough to have a kid, does that mean that they have to be a virgin? er, no. Kids grow up alot faster than previous generations did. And if you dont let them drink occasionly or anything else, when they finally get round to being able to but drink for themselves, they're going to go ape and possibly kill themselves in the process.|||Your personal opinion, however, contradicts the actual definition. Yes, a teen is a kid. Kid is simply a euphemism for a child, and child is the word we use to describe anyone under the age of majority. A 13 year old is a minor, and is therefore a child, and therefor, a kid. While I realize that at 13, someone does not FEEL like a kid, they are technically still classified under that definition, like it or not. However, your second mistake is in thinking there are only 2 blanket ways to treat someone ... as a child, or as an adult, and that's not true. How people react to someone has more to do with their level of maturity than their actual age. I have a 15 year old that's years ahead of her age group, and I interact with her on an adult level, and have for years. On the other hand, my younger daughter will be 13 this week. She is flighty, incredibly immature and irresponsible. I treat her like a kid.|||You're absolutely right... But, I can't really say anything bad about teenagers, because I'm a 17-year old myself... But, what you say about younger teenagers doing this things.... They get tired of that stuff and think it's time for a change, but they do it not in the correct direction.|||Says the 13-year-old who doesn't get their way all the time. As long as you act without thinking of others like you do you're a child. Now shut up and do what you're told or I'll come over there and spank you back to last week.|||I think they're just considered teens, and too often teens try to act like adults. Just because child-like things may not be that appealing, there are better things to do other than sex and drugs. I also agree with Jade ^^^|||Yes close enough. I'd say kids not children. They're certainly not toddlers, nor are they adults. Kids is short for juvenile delinquents.|||Well..The way most teens act they are still children..|||13 year olds shouldn't be having sex anyways...I'm 18 I still consider myself a kid!|||I am sixteen, but I still consider myself a child and until I can provide for myself entirely I am a child. That's the way I see it.|||I consider anyone under 24 to be a kid. There's lots of stages of childhood, I'm discovering new ones all the time.|||I call 13-15 year olds childteens. And 16-19 year olds adultteens.|||Doing drugs, drinking, and having sex doesn't make you a grown up.|||they're all foolish young'uns to me|||If i caught my 13 year old drinking and doing drugs I'd spank them like a six year old.|||...I'm 13 and consider myself a kid..|||it depends on your culture. In some cultures, anything under 20 or 21 is a kid. In some cultures, anything under 18 is a kid. In some cultures 14 is adult and marriage age. If i was an ethiopian man born and raised in their boondock sticks.. I'd probably think a 15 year old wife was pretty hot and awesome. But. i'm american. we chose a different arbitrary age of adulthood. I abide by that. I dont play along with our white cultures "white males are creeps and older white women are cougars" bullcrap. I will never abide by that nonsense.....but I do abide by the law and 18. There are enough 18 year olds who appear 16 that you dont have to risk jail with some 16 year old who appears 19. But i am the biggest critic of japan's 20. I was dating my fiancee (japanese) since she was 18 and she as more than mature enough and adult enough for sex, love and companionship. Us americans gave her adulthood at a sensible age. 18. In fact.. I will go so far as to claim that an 18 year old japanese girl is equal to a 28 year old white girl in conduct and morality and decency and maturity and even has a lower crime rate to boot. I've seen 28 year old women on jerry springer that were 100000x more immature and stupid than my girl was at 18. Do I think 13 is a child? culturally yes. Scientifically no. In every other species of animal.. adulthood is defined by the ability to reproduce. But us humans dont think we are animals so we define ourselves differently from the way we define the animal kingdom. I believe 14 year olds can give birth.. because father nature intended them to. But... we overruled him with the advent of high school. so culturally yes.. scientifically no. Teens are probably the ones who gave birth to the human race.