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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always thought it was a play on words. You’re inbeTWEEN being a teen and being a child. And in english we don’t say tenteen, eleventeen, twelveteen. But there are big enough differences of behavior and maturity that 10,11,12 year olds experience, from the kind of things that kids younger than 10 experience, and teenagers experience. So I’d say 10,11, and 12 year olds are tweens. Strictly-speaking.. however I can definitely see precocious 9 year olds and late-blooming early teenagers having more in common maturity-wise, with tweens. [/quote] No one ever said tenteen. Eleventeen and twelveteeen were silly words, and I think tween was probably invented to capture 11 & 12 year olds. It got *ridiculously* stretched to 9 and 10 year olds. I never considered my children tweens when they were that age. Such a cringy marketing term anyway, we should all be objecting. [/quote]
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