The question was posed recently by a group of teachers in the secon­dary schools: "Why are today's teenagers so difficult to cope with? Why can't they confonn as we did in our time?" This is a question, I am sure, that teachers all over the country are asking. But in order to begin to answer this question we have first to recognize that children today live and interact in a societty that is totally different from the one in which we were raised.