1. Answers of grandparents
Similarities:
1: They all spent most of their spare time outside.
2: The grandparents lived with many people in one house. (Around the 7 people)
3: Most grandparents had to help their parents.
Differences:
1: Some grandparents got no pocket money at all and some did.
2: Some grandparents had lots of spare time (every evening and the whole weekend) while other grandparents had almost no spare time (they had to work).
3: Some grandparents think they spend their spare time as teenager better then teenagers now do, other think just the other way around.
Conclusions answers grandparents:
There were large families and they helped each other. They spend their spare time mostly outside. Some grandparents had more spare time than others. There is also a difference in getting pocket money or not.
2. Answers of parents
Similarities
1: They had all much spare time (after school and during the weekends). Sometimes they had to help their parents.
2: The parents didn’t live with many people in one house (around the 3 people).
3: All parents got once a week pocket money.
Differences
1: Some parents spend most of their spare time outside, other parents inside (at home).
2: Some parents think they spend their spare time as teenager better then teenagers now do, other don’t know it well.
3: Some parents lived in the countryside (there was not much trafic) and some parents lived in a city.
Conclusions answers parents:
In the much spare time the parents had, they spend their spare time both inside and outside. They got pocket money to spent. There weren’t very large families.
3. Compare the answers of the grandparents and the parents
Similarities
1: The opinions weather teenagers now are spending their spare time better than they did as teenager is both by the parents as by the grandparents divided.
2: All the grandparents and all the parents had to help their parents sometimes.
3: Everybody lived/grew up with their own parent(s).
Differences
1: The parents had much more spare time than most of the grandparents.
2: Not all the grandparents got pocket money but all the parents got.
3: The grandparents spend most spare time outside, the parents both inside (at home) and outside.
Conclusions answers grandparents – parents:
During the years people got more spare time and pocket money to spent. The place where people spend their spare time has also changed because the parents also spent their spare time inside and the grandparents almost not.
4. Our opinion on the situation of teenagers nowadays related to our topic:
We think that teenagers nowadays can decide by themselves how and when they spend their spare
time and pocket money. Teenagers now can go easily with the train and bus to everywhere they want.
Nowadays teenagers spend their spare time often on mobile devices. Most teenagers are spending their spare time more inside/at home than outside. They like hanging out with friends and making new friends via social media. They stay in contact with friends, also via social media. For example WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat.
5. Conclusion
How has the way that teenagers spend their spare time changed?
During the years people got more spare time.
Now teenagers spend much more time on the internet and social media. They can very easy have contact with people everywhere.
The grandparents spend their spare time much more outside than teenagers now do. Now teenagers have (more) pocket money to spent.
Similarities:
1: They all spent most of their spare time outside.
2: The grandparents lived with many people in one house. (Around the 7 people)
3: Most grandparents had to help their parents.
Differences:
1: Some grandparents got no pocket money at all and some did.
2: Some grandparents had lots of spare time (every evening and the whole weekend) while other grandparents had almost no spare time (they had to work).
3: Some grandparents think they spend their spare time as teenager better then teenagers now do, other think just the other way around.
Conclusions answers grandparents:
There were large families and they helped each other. They spend their spare time mostly outside. Some grandparents had more spare time than others. There is also a difference in getting pocket money or not.
2. Answers of parents
Similarities
1: They had all much spare time (after school and during the weekends). Sometimes they had to help their parents.
2: The parents didn’t live with many people in one house (around the 3 people).
3: All parents got once a week pocket money.
Differences
1: Some parents spend most of their spare time outside, other parents inside (at home).
2: Some parents think they spend their spare time as teenager better then teenagers now do, other don’t know it well.
3: Some parents lived in the countryside (there was not much trafic) and some parents lived in a city.
Conclusions answers parents:
In the much spare time the parents had, they spend their spare time both inside and outside. They got pocket money to spent. There weren’t very large families.
3. Compare the answers of the grandparents and the parents
Similarities
1: The opinions weather teenagers now are spending their spare time better than they did as teenager is both by the parents as by the grandparents divided.
2: All the grandparents and all the parents had to help their parents sometimes.
3: Everybody lived/grew up with their own parent(s).
Differences
1: The parents had much more spare time than most of the grandparents.
2: Not all the grandparents got pocket money but all the parents got.
3: The grandparents spend most spare time outside, the parents both inside (at home) and outside.
Conclusions answers grandparents – parents:
During the years people got more spare time and pocket money to spent. The place where people spend their spare time has also changed because the parents also spent their spare time inside and the grandparents almost not.
4. Our opinion on the situation of teenagers nowadays related to our topic:
We think that teenagers nowadays can decide by themselves how and when they spend their spare
time and pocket money. Teenagers now can go easily with the train and bus to everywhere they want.
Nowadays teenagers spend their spare time often on mobile devices. Most teenagers are spending their spare time more inside/at home than outside. They like hanging out with friends and making new friends via social media. They stay in contact with friends, also via social media. For example WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat.
5. Conclusion
How has the way that teenagers spend their spare time changed?
During the years people got more spare time.
Now teenagers spend much more time on the internet and social media. They can very easy have contact with people everywhere.
The grandparents spend their spare time much more outside than teenagers now do. Now teenagers have (more) pocket money to spent.
Grandad of Joëlla when he was 14 years old. Mom of Joëlla with friends when she was 16.