Or maybe Iowa. Her ideas just don t fly where I m at. There are at least 39 different flavours in the youth-subculture ice cream shop, not including the weekly special. Just observe the diverse fashions, cliches, hairstyles, interests, outlooks and approaches. At the same time, if we give all our attention to kids differences, we miss the common ground that enables us to connect with any teenager.
All kids are part of the human race.
All are created in the image of God and have a spiritual dimension. All have sinned. All need God s mercy. Your teenagers have something in common with every other person who s walked the planet Earth. The core issues facing humankind are the same in Moscow, Russia and Moscow, Idaho.