I think you've raised a very interesting point and I agree with you for all the reasons you've given. I'd like to add a few more, too. Not only do teens need to be given more information about sex and relationships than tweens do, tweens need to be given much less. It's really not appropriate for advice sections on subjects like that to be combined. 10 year olds shouldn't know about certain things in such detail yet, mainly because they're generally not old enough to deal with the information maturely, but also because they're a long way from encountering those issues. At 15, the age where sex really does become more common, is when I believe teens should learn in more detail about the responsibilities it involves. Should a 10 year old know the correct way to put a condom on? I personally don't believe they should and I find it very odd that so many people think it's okay to be giving exactly the same advice to such different age ranges. Considering that the time between one's tween years and one's teen years is probably the time of most change, it's just not right.As for advice to parents: parenting a tween is very different to parenting a tween, and good luck to anybody who disagrees with that.Generally, a tween feels ready to embrace being a teenager and discard childhood. The things they used to like are "soooo whatever". Now they want ipods and later curfews. But unlike most teenagers, they haven't had enough life experience to realise that they have to work and make sacrifices for everything. The parents of most teenagers can probably ask their teen to be home by a certain time, ask them to ring every few hours, etc. But most tweens often haven't grasped how important it is to do this. There's a likelihood that they'll forget to ring, fail to leave enough time to get home within curfew…so many potential dangers.But why, recently, have the lines become so blurred?I read an interview a few years ago and it's always stuck in my mind. I'm pretty sure it was with Jacqueline Wilson, an English writer for children and teenagers. She made a comment about how she believed that "adulthood was starting at 12 now" and how it was sad that this was happening. I think the peer pressure to be cool, to fit in, is starting at a younger age than it did before which is sad because kids are losing their childhood, trying to grow up too quickly. But I don't think that actual adulthood – with society's rules and responsibilities – genuinely starts at that young age. Sure, these grown up children would like to believe it does, and maybe for some it does. But generally, they're simply not ready for everything else that comes with growing up. They're living in a kind of fake adulthood.Obviously there are some tweens who are more mature, and some teens who are less mature. But, in general, this is my opinion: they are different age groups and each should be treated differently. 1 year ago 1 person rated this as good Exactly! I feel like you laid out a good argument. I loved the point on fake adulthood also.