framing youth

    After reading Professor Bogad's article on "Framing Youth: Writing 'Youth' in Social Context". The things that kept coming to mind was youth and how we treat and see the youth in the world. We see youth as people that have raging hormones and cant do anything out of their familiar representation. The article says "On television and film, in educational policy and political stoops, on magazine covers and in the news, we come to know youth as an entity specific from other groups -- "a tribe apart" (Hersch,1998) with customs, language and rituals all their own." I believe that we stereotype youth as everything we see on t.v. and movies. In some ways we believe that youth can not lead because they dont have what it takes to lead.
     Youth can handle more than we think they can. They can lead groups of their peers and younger youth. In the article it states that "Who/What is a youth, and how has this category (youth, teen, adolescent) come to signify such a monolithic narrative in spite of its short history and vast cultural and social divergence?" I believe that the category has come to explain that they all can learn to lead and become leaders. Also, they get framed for doing alot of things because people believe that they dont know how to be a leader and are not sure how to lead a group of their peers or younger youth. Instead of adults saying they can't do this and can't do that they should teach the youth how to lead and be leaders.