Teenager. This singular, unique (some might say enviable!) life stage is often equated with fun, discovery, angst, (don’t call it moodiness) freedom and transition. We now see the teenage phase as an essential passage to adulthood. But it wasn’t always that way. Teenagers are an invention of recent history, morphing over the years from chaperoned innocents, to malt shop boppers, from hippy protesters, to latchkey kids, all the way down to today’s digital natives. Maybe it’s because of their fresh perspective on the world and their sense of immortality, but teenagers serve as cultural mirrors. They reflect our shifting society in ways other life stages don’t. Is that why we’re so interested in them? Or is it just the massive market, discretionary income and potential for long-term loyalty that we’re after? There’s a new generation of kids moving through those teen years right now; it’s the generation after the Millennials. In early 2014, I wrote about the best name for this