Your input would be appreciated - we’re going to flashback to your teen years!
Alright folks, here’s the deal. As some of you former JSers may remember I was in foster care and I now work for an agency that does private fostercare nationwide.
I plan on doing an activity at our next staff meeting to help the staff understand, and just to start a discussion.
There is an activity that I’ve done before in workshops that allows you to be in the mindset of children in care, since we only really deal with 12+ years youth we will be working in those teenage years.
Now here’s the part where all ya’ll come in.
I need you to list 3 of your favorite things while you were that age, things you simply could not live without and I also want you to list your top 2 memories.
The things can be people, activities, tangibile possensions anything. Your memories can be anything from holidays, to ditching school, hanging out with friends, simply ANYTHING.
After I have a workable list compiled (thanks to you guys) I will tell you the rest of the activity and gain some feedback. 
Thank you guys!!!
ps. (Anything between 12 and 18, you can decide what memory is most vivid!)
Sundary
by age, i’m assuming you want from when we were 12-ish??
My top 3 favorite things were probably my walkman, my camera and probably some item of clothing.
My top 2 favorite memories were summer camp (those memories lasted longer than any) and holidays with my family.
Comment by Snow Angel — July 7, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
Thanks!
Comment by Sundary — July 7, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
Favorite things for that whole timespan? Playing soccer, hanging with friends and smoking weed, sometimes all at the same time.
Comment by Girly — July 7, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
Sorry, didn’t quite get it (must be all the drugs).
Favorite posessions were my teddy bear, record albums and my silver parachute cloth duffle bag.
Best memories from that time would be hanging out with my friends (see previous comment) and performing in band at school.
Comment by Girly — July 7, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
Top 3 things: my car, my clothes, my makeup.
Top 2 memories: hanging out with my friends and spending time with my grandparents.
Comment by dsl64 — July 7, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Favorite things: Make-up, curling iron, hair spray.
Favorite memories: Sneaking out, sneaking smokes.
Comment by bubonicpandora — July 7, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
3 favorite things: Curling iron, written journal (any paper/pen would do), and my cassette player/radio.
Favorite memories: hanging out with my best friends just watching tv/talking, and cruising the strip on Saturday nights.
Comment by lunamor — July 7, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
things (from 12-14):
CDs
Bicycle
Sega
memories:
Playing softball basketball baseball and coaching(third base) softball
amusement parks
taking things apart (and putting them back)
Comment by Easysleeper — July 7, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
Most significant things/activities:
1. Books/reading.
2. Cameras/taking photographs.
3. Making models (either plastic assembly kits, or entirely self-made).
Top memories:
1. First kiss (not sure if this is what you were after!)
2. Less specifically… warm sunny days in the holidays.
Comment by simon — July 7, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
things: LP record albums, a small portable radio (ok, so I’M ancient), first kiss
memories: living in the Philippines, running behind trucks spraying ddt (maybe that conserved me heehee)
Comment by Westy — July 7, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Things: records (yes, the real vinyl ones), books, my horse
Memories: playing in the hay barn (riding bales of hay down the ramp into the mule/horse feeding troughs and making forts out of the hay bales); riding my horse along with my cousins on their horses–thru the woods and pastures, making sure to avoid the bulls; playing in my grandmother’s chicken coop (up on tall legs with a ramp into it)
In the 70’s when we were young teens, living in the country–we were’nt as “mature” as kids are at the same age today. We have kids coming in that started having sex at age 9–I hardly knew what that was when I was 15. We also grew up outside–we had one tv and it was in the family room, got 4 or 5 channels and was controlled by my parents and only used on Saturday and Sunday nights(they’d tell us to go over and change channels–we were the remote controls), we only stayed in the house if the weather was so bad my grandmother wouldn’t let us out (we’d sneak by her if we could so we could go outside to watch thunderstorms). Another memory–we’d open the window upstairs that was right over the front porch, climb and slide down the tin roof and land out in the front yard (scared my grandmother half to death).
Comment by Picaboblu — July 7, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
Favorite things: my Walkman, my guitar, my Converse hi-tops
Favorite memories: Being MASSIVELY high up in some tree, writing new music
Comment by Roux — July 7, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
3 Things: My boom-box cassette player, my curling iron, the telephone.
2 Memories: Cruising all night with friends. Horseback riding with my dad.
Comment by Blackbird — July 7, 2009 @ 8:38 pm