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TEENAGERS ON AN EMOTIONAL
ROLLER COASTER
First
love
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| Kirsten
Dunst and Jay Hernandez star in "crazy/beautiful".
Kids are bombarded by media images that imply
that everybody else in the world has a significant
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However,
Allenbaugh, who lives in Lake Oswego, Ore., adds that "it's a little more
complicated nowadays."
Kids are bombarded by media images that imply that everybody else in the
world has a significant other, which puts them under a lot of pressure.
Many of them aren't prepared for it.
Kate Dunlop Seamans, an editor at Teen Ink, a magazine, Web site and book
series based in Newton, Mass., that is written by teenagers, says she
sees a lot of letters from kids who are experiencing love for the first
time.
The teens acknowledge what they are feeling might not be what an older
person would consider "love," but it's real to them, says Seamans, 25.
And, she adds, it seems the first-love experience is similar for boys
and girls since the "human bond of nervousness" transcends gender.
Gordon says he often hears from teenagers that they have found their "soul
mate" and that the love will last forever.
"Teenagers think that you can only really fall in love once," he says.
"Boys and girls are influenced by movies and MTV, which teach love at
first sight, love is blind, you're meant for each other," he says.
Those feelings can be isolating, so he suggests making sure that parents
let their kids know they can talk to them.
1- First love
2- More complicated nowadays
3- Too critical
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