not much just chillin'

Linda Perlstein's book not much just chillin' ventures into the lives of middle school students ages 11-13. Their secular culture has instilled a drive in them to want to grow up faster than they ought to and mirror the behaviors of high school students. It’s interesting though how they’re so eager to speed from childhood into their adolescent years, yet slow and even come to a complete stop in this race during their latter adolescent years. What’s the appeal that adolescence has that causes us to rush through childhood just to obtain it, and slows our transition into adulthood? Is it the media with its appealing ads of wearing Revlon's simply red lipstick we saw Vanessa Hudgens sporting or the bleak future of our economy foreshadowing years of hard labor just to make ends meet as an adult? In case you're wondering, these inquiries aren't meant to be rhetorical, and will be answered in future entries to come.