Podcast practice

My topic is teenagers and alcohol. I chose this topic because its a normal thing these days, but in our parents generation, no one was able to do it, because they would get beaten by their parents and they never risked it, unless they knew for sure they wouldnt get caught.

The experiences are a lot different from our parents experience. Eventhough i am sure that our parents generation used to go out drinking when they were teenagers, they deffinitely didnt do it as much as teenagers do today. I think desires are different now, because i think we have more freedom than our parents did when they were young, so we want more and more and we take advantage of having more freedom.



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Hello my name is Nate and i just moved to mongolia a few months ago. Im 16 years old and i moved here because of my parents. My dad works for the embassy. So far i dont think mongolia is that bad, but its not that good for my future. I like to go out and chill with friends. I do some sports, but not that much. Im in 10th grade now and i go to the international school in Ulaanbaatar. I have many life challenges now, but the main one is to ged my grades up and get into the college i want to and study the major that i find most interesting. Hopefully i would have chosen what to do by the time i get to 12th grade.

I wanted to talk about parents and alcohol. This topic is quite annoying and irritating when it comes to parent child talks, because they never understand that its a different time now. They always bring up these stories how they never drank alcohol and how they were these pure little kids just running around playing and then working most of their day to help with the financial problems of the family. They just never understand that its a different time now and everyone drinks acohol. They should be happy that i dont do drugs or anything else. Here in Mongolia there arent many places to go out so my parents view of me is better because i dont go out as much as i used to in my previous country. I think that they should let loose a bit more and just let us drink. When we turn 18 they wont be able to do anything anymore. A lot of my friends that are around 23 always go out and drink with their dads so i dont get why we cant do it now. Its probably that they are scared that we might get too wasted and go to the hospital or get into a fight or something. I think that the only main reason is the age. Even if we are completely the same person at 23 as when we were 15 its the age that matters, the number. There also needs to be some trust with parents. If there is a lot of trust, then you could compromise that you will only take this amount of alcohol and then they can call you at some point that night and see if youre not wasted. If this were possible both sides would be happy i think.