I had 54 teenage kids out to our field last summer, they were all in a summer program put on through the university. By the end of the day we got every one of them up flying on the buddy box. I gave a lecture on our hobby and all the different aspects of it. They had lots of questions on "where we got our planes". I explained to them about kits, arfs, rtfs, scratch builds and so on. I showed them that they could do any of these things themselves. Find out what you like to do and go for it. Maybe building from a kit is not your cup of tea but an arf is. Nothing wrong with that at all. They were amazed at how flexable our hobby is and all the different options available to them. The points I wanted to stress to them was to be safe, and to have fun. And thats what we did that day. As most have already stated here, dont label, quit worrying about what everyone else is doing. Just do your own thing and have fun with it.

Archie