To think teen girls get "nana" old before their time?

[sadsac1]

I follow a few accounts on You Tube and Instagram- mainly for their foodie posts etc - but these girls are 18-21 mainly (the big bloggers) and act so differently to my and my friends at that age.

When I was that age, Saturday's were about shopping, maybe grabbing a McDonald's or something similarly unhealthy in town and most importantly getting dressed up and going out for a good dance and to be honest, drinks and snogging!

Most of these girls do video logs where their day is either the gym and then tea and cake followed by a night in watching a box set or reading with a green tea and some peanut butter before meditation before bed at ten.

Now before you flame me, I know this is healthier and great habits for later in life but I can't help but feel your young days are for letting your hair down a bit...but then I think social
Media is their social life so that's probably something to do with it...

I think there may be a bit of not really wanting to turn into your parents at play here. Look around mumsnet it's full of 40 somethings counting down the weekdays til wine o'clock. My mum was exactly the same growing up and I found it all a bit embarrassing really. Lots of my friends from school have turned out this way too and are practically T total other than a rare special occasion. All mid twenties, healthy lifestyles, would rather go out for a nice meal and drive home than go to a night club! I don't think we're missing out at all, I think those who can't stand not having a glass of wine on a Saturday evening are the ones who need to re-evalute the fun in life to be honest.

Estuary

I don’t recognise these stay at home no drink no fun types! My 6 teens and 20s kids still have fun and hold down jobs, mortgages and kids.

All their mates have fun and honestly our friends late 40s early 50s are fairly responsible grandparents and have lots of parties/drinks/fun.

Ffs don’t be smug about having teens who watch box sets and drink cocoa with you! That’s just wierd! Well the box sets are fine with wine but cocoa? Life is too short. All of you grab it.

@KeepServingTheDrinks I am neither stupid, naive or patronising - quite strong words to someone you don't know in the slightest.

U tube Tracey Ullmans so ‘woo’.

I can’t link too old. If someone can please do.

We were just living, not styling our brand. The kids now are as conscious of their image as any celebrity, they carefully select what goes on social media. Especially these girls who make money from blogs etc. I am constantly amused by how my babysitter and niece appear on their insta accounts versus real life. Last time I saw her at a family party my niece asked me to take a picture of her on her phone. We were at a family picnic. So in her social media she was sipping champagne "with bae". Real life: it was my drink and she was with her aunt.

It’s not “no fun”. I have fun watching David Attenborough documentaries and Gossip Girl reruns. Just because it’s not your type of fun!

Perhaps they just don't want to turn into their parents. I know that's why I barely ever drink. I'm not in my 20s, either.

What is wrong with cocoa? Bloody hell, life is hard enough as it is being a 20 something, now we aren't allowed to bloody drink hot chocolate?!!

What is wrong with cocoa? Bloody hell, life is hard enough as it is being a 20 something, now we aren't allowed to bloody drink hot chocolate?!!

Apparently not!

I’m a proper miserable bastard because I don’t drink hot drinks OR alcohol gasp

There are people out there who actually watch these bloggers?

Why?

My 19 yr old DD is a full time EMT. She has her own flat and car. I’ve called her on a Friday to see if she wants to have dinner out or movie with me on Saturday. She usually asks if she can just come over for a take away and Netflix.
She meets up mostly with her friends on Saturday or Sunday for lunch. She loves her life and says she wouldn’t change a thing.

I was just thinking about this today.

The culture has changed so much since I was that age. There was a pub on every corner. I went out every night of the week except one, when I babysat my younger brother. And I mean EVERY night.

It wasn't a late night and clubbing sort of 'out'. I met my friends or a date at the pub at 8:00pm and we were home and in bed by 11:00pm, possibly a bit later at weekends. Night clubs and discos [yep: I'm that old] were for special celebrations only, not routine.

We often went to the pub in the lunch break from work as well. Quite often people leaving work would call for a 'pint' on the way home.

It wasn't so much to get drunk - it was just having a social life. Just reading this back it seems that life revolved around drink! Well - that's where you met boys. We also played sports and went to the cinema. And then the pub after

It was great!

Well if they were eating at Macdondalds and getting pissed in their spare time , they wouldn't be creating foodie blogs that were of interest for you , so what's the problem ?

As an aside, I get mistaken for 16 and regularly get asked what I do to keep my skin looking so young when people find out my real age, 24. DP replied the other day “she doesn’t drink and she moisturises.”

Us old grandma 20 something’s will at least have fabulous skin for many years and beyond. ;)

I'm 26 and I knit, drink green tea (salted caramel hmmmm) work out every day and have alcohol only on Xmas day. I'm not an instagrammer or youtuber though perhaps I should be

I think it's fair to say some people are massively missing my original point. I love (and loved) box sets and documentaries and reading and cake and learning and going for a coffee and loads of other things apart from getting dressed up with my friends for a night out drinking when at uni. But I did love that too.

It was balance and it was fun.

If people genuinely don't enjoy that, then of course don't do it and enjoy whatever YOU are into.

"When I was that age, Saturday's were about shopping, maybe grabbing a McDonald's or something similarly unhealthy in town and most importantly getting dressed up and going out for a good dance and to be honest, drinks and snogging! "

Snogging, yes. But the rest of it is what boring would be if the devil had designed boring.

I know what you mean and ....
I had fuck all debt after Uni really . £5k
A car
Nowadays they have 40K of debt

And fact is we all drank and caned it .

So let them be

I don’t mind occasional drinking OP. But I’m always shocked when I hear people spend upwards of £40, sometimes £100 on a night out!

Mine never costs me more than £30 and that’s if I have food. I only ever buy one drink, usually a soft drink and make it last the night, because I’m more interested in talking to friends and socialising than actually drinking alcohol.

It was balance and it was fun

I think your attitude is really odd to be honest .
Why do you / your generation get to decide what a 'balance' is ? . Is that to say those who weren't pissed and shit faced 50% of the time are unbalanced ? You're being ridiculous . Plus they're creating content for you so I don't get why you're moaning .

You do realise Instagram isn't real right? They show what they want to show...what sells.

But I do think that this generation are a lot smarter with regards to drinking. They do it of course but not all of them....not like we did. And I'm GLAD. Alcohol is underestimated for the damage it does.

sadsac I was commenting on the words you wrote, not you as a person.

I don't know which rock you people are under but from where I stand, those teens who drink actually drink a hell of a lot more than my friends and I did at uni. Vodka, shots, cocktails - we had a bottle of Liebfraumilch or a half of lager and lime!!

My two DDs are at uni and more sensible than I was! They can't afford to go out drinking loads. If they go clubbing (rarely) they drink before they go!

DD1 was on her Erasmus year and hung out with other students mostly from the UK. Some of them regularly got very drunk, smoked weed, took coke and ket.

I'm in my 50s, I had a ball at uni, I met all sorts of people, I drank too much, snogged (!) unsuitable 'boys', made friends for life, and somehow also got a degree. Je ne regrette rien!

Look around mumsnet it's full of 40 somethings counting down the weekdays til wine o'clock. My mum was exactly the same growing up and I found it all a bit embarrassing really.
Quite true actually.

Most of my circle range from late 20s to late 30s. We enjoy a drink and balance it with going to the gym. We did it through college and the start of uni but it doesn't appeal anymore. You'd more often find us sitting in each other's gardens having a few social drinks early evening with some nibbles and then going home or meeting up to do some fitness training and having lunch after. There's no big appeal to drinking or looking forward to 'FriYay' (and other twee crap).

Meanwhile if I look at people I know, I find the ones who are always sharing memes like 'gym? Oh I thought you said GIN!' and have signs in their house about prosecco are late 30s onwards and 40s. They seem obsessed with when it's acceptable to drink wine. It seems like tragically normalizing alcoholism the way they talk about it. Personally, I find it cringeworthy and embarrassing.

(Obviously not saying everyone in an age group does that)

Mrspock that's nonsense to a certain degree. Some people just naturally look young for their age and have good skin because it's in their genes.

I come from a family with "young" looking genes. I'm mid 30s and still don't look 30 and it took most of my 20s to stop looking like a teenager in the face and people have always complimented my skin. It's the same for my sisters and my mother.

That's not a stealth boast either because it's only now I'm starting to appreciate it because looking very young was more of a hindrance than anything throughout my 20s.

I'm not saying that not drinking won't help your skin or make you age slower, but the two aren't exclusively linked. Some people are just lucky with their skin and how slowly they visibly age and some unfortunately really struggle.

My sister has been a drinker since her mid teens and smoked for 20 years (she now nearly 40) but with our family genes you'd never know looking at face.