So the real inspiration behind this blog came today. Now before I tell you this story, let me ask you a question. At what age does a person become a "teenager"? Really think about your answer. Do you have it?
If you answered "thirteen", you are RIGHT!
A friend on Facebook posted that his little girl was officially a teenager today as it was her thirteenth birthday. My husband replied that this wasn't the case, that a person becomes a teenager when they turn ten. His reason behind this is that we have the "20's", "30's", "40's", "50's", etc. and therefore that meant the decade of ten through to nineteen years of age is the "teens".
I don't think I really need to say much further on this blog, except that the word "teenager" is quite clearly used to describe someone between the ages of thirteen to nineteen when their age ends in "-teen".
My husband is wrong.
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