"i'm a rigid flagpole. It's who i am, and i'm not going to change," she says of her parents. "If you're open and pliable, you become a person who has all the information that you have, but also is open to receiving new information." She writes about how kids are just vacuum cleaners, movies like thad thad or their friends' vid shows on YouTube. 'You really realize that when you're old enough to sort of know something about the world, you're really looking at the past and the future,' she adds.