Anyone with teenagers want to provide some feedback.
My husband is from a smaller city in Morocco.
We live in a big city in Canada.
My husband is highly critical of Canadian, American and European Teenagers labelling them as being very disrespectful to their parents and the way they dress and conduct themselves in public.
We are pretty strict parents in general. I don't let our daughter roam around with anyone. I need to know who she is around and if I don't like them I am not shy about saying so. My husband is even more strict as he generally does not like anyone if they are not Muslim and fairly religious. I am not religious so I guess I am the exception.
During the last few years our daughter has spent that last few summers in Morocco and made a good number of friends she keeps in contact with through social media.
Like just about every teenager they are talking to each other on social media. The other day I am sitting with her and she is showing me some photos from the profiles of some of her Moroccan Teenage friends in Casablanca and Rabat and I was really shocked.
All these girls are wearing skin tight clothes, mid drift tops, loads of makeup and taking really sexualized photos especially considering their age. I was really annoyed. I spent sometime telling my daughter directly how I felt about this type of behaviour and explained why. The guys were just as bad in the male version of inappropriate too.
I am seeing these kids taking photos with bottle of alcohol, smoking cigarettes and other likely illegal things and I was pretty surprised because this was very over the top bad behaviour even by North American standards. This kids are not even drinking cheap alcohol. It is expensive stuff (unless it is photos edited in). Being a drug addict, alcoholic or trashing is not trending or is it?
Anyone in Morocco with teenagers have any feedback. My husband is under soon delusion that teenagers in Morocco as so much more wholesome, respectful and religious. If he looked at the Instagram accounts of the kids she was talking to from Morocco he would freak out. I am happy the Pandemic blocked them from going back this summer as I want to make sure I know who she is talking to next time she goes back because I am not impressed.
Not in a million years would I be tolerating any of that here. Very confused about what is considered acceptable behaviour in Casablanca for teenagers.
Also curious to know if this is a city or income specific issue? The teenagers from my husband's city don't dress like this, but I have never looked at all their social media accounts … so who knows.
Are teenagers just a potentially annoying and reckless in Morocco as North American and Europe?