The three main problems that Hymowitz mentions in her essay "Tweens: Ten going on Sixteen" is how young children have now been involved in sexual activities, drugs/alcohol, violence, and most of all the appearances they have come to develop so quickly. The transition of children to teens has been influenced by much of the modern world around them. Currently there has been an increasingly amount of difference between past generations. Children are learning bad behaviors earlier than usual and obtaining bad habits at early ages. This has caused preteens to be categorized as a younger group. They all seem to want to grow up so fast and aren't really concerned about their childhood years. Children these days have rapidly caught on to older peoples