Dear Ann Landers,
hat's with parents, anyway? Don't they remember when they were kids? Why do they want to spare their children every hardship? We all have to face life sometime, so why don't they let us find out for ourselves? Teen-agers want to learn from experience and not be pro-tected against everything. I am sixteen and my folks treat me like an infant. If I get into a jam or louse myself up it should be my problem. I'm only going to live once and I want to look back at all the fun I had and not remember my youth as a time when I couldn't do anything. Is it wrong to go where the other kids my age go, and do what they do?-U. H. S. Student

Dear Student,
Where do the other kids go? And what do they do? If they go to dives where they can get liquor with faked ID cards you should not go there. If they are sniffing glue or smoking marihuana or using goofballs or getting drunk, you should not be doing what they are doing. Certain things are best learned first-hand, but only a fool would jump off a cliff because he wanted to learn what's at the bottom. You say if you get loused up that's your problem. I have news for you. It's your parents' problem, too, because they are responsible for you.