Guardian Unlimited | Family | Melvin Burgess on living with teenagers
Melvin Burgess attempts some social commentary about the teenage predicament.
Stick to fiction, mate*. This was published in The Guardian at the weekend. It has taken me a mercifully long time to get to it. Reading it back to himself should bring a red flush to Burgess's cheeks, assuming he is capable of embarrassment.
Drivel.
Growing things are so interesting. It should be a pleasure to review a time when we were changing so much, growing, learning so much. We have a lot to learn from teenagers about how to keep on our toes, about how to be lazy, about how to be playful, and most of all, how to just grow up.
*Look forward to Melvin's autobiography of his own teenage years, though.
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