ScottGem,
"One can gain experience from listening to and learning from the experience of others."
Never gonna happen.
I don't know what it was like for you as a teenage but I knew everything. lol
You're right of course but it's going over some heads I'm afraid.
This is an amazing board, and I love participating, and I have lots of life experience to share, and I have lots of opinions to share, and I try quite hard at times to get a point across, but all said and done all I can do, all any of us can do, is answer the question, give them the information - what they do with it is up to them.
I have tried to encourage young people to listen to other people on here, people with lots of experience, for one simple reason... They just don't have the time to learn it all. But do they listen?
All we can do is read the question, come up with the most helpful answer and start typing. Hopefully they will come back and read it and hopefully it will help them through one more day. Nothing we do on here is going to change anyone's life - if only.
I'm sorry, and I hope I'm wrong about that, but that's the reality.