December 2011
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Parents held responsible for underage drinking
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Parents of teens: If you think a drinking disaster at your kid’s party can’t happen at your house, not with your kid, because he’s a good kid, it’s time to wake up and smell the whiskey bottle tossed on your lawn.
Because of the high risk of underage drinking and driving this time of year, many parents open their homes...
Anonymous asked: What about teens who take drugs to self medicate for depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc?
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macdogald asked: Re: Teen drinking. One of the major 'causes' teen drinking, to me, is adult modelling. When adults drink alcohol, and I mean all members of society, it is portrayed as a normal adult behaviour. I think too much attention is given to teen drinking, and not the adult drinking happening alongside.
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technologicalsmash asked: This blog is wonderful. I saw a lot of the posts relating to bullying and teen suicide. My father is the founder of the society for the prevention of teen suicide, he travels around doing talks and setting up schools and people with educational tools on how to ask for help or how to help friends if they ask for it. I think you might be interested in their program. sptsusa. org
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See the Signs
By Walt Mueller
Even though it’s been several years since I saw it happen, its impact on me is still strong. I was sitting in the stands at a Good Charlotte concert with a raucous crowd of young fans. At one point in the concert, the band stood on stage and asked for the houselights to be brought up. After quieting the 10,000 teens in the room, the band calmly asked, “How many of you here have...
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10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully-Prevention (and Why...
By Lyn Mikel Brown
1) Stop labeling kids
Bully prevention programs typically put kids in three categories: bullies, victims, and bystanders. Labeling children in these ways denies what we know to be true: We are all complex beings with the capacity to do harm and to do good, sometimes within the same hour. It also makes the child the problem, which downplays the important role of parents,...
WatchWhat Causes Teen Substance Abuse?
Drug abuse isn’t defined by demographics. It’s an issue that plagues large cities and small towns alike, targeting our youth and destroying any hope they may have of a positive future. To battle this epidemic we need to ask ourselves, what causes our youth to use drugs? While there are no crystal ball answers to this plague, below is a listing of the...
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m...
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Facebook helps prevent suicide
Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help.
A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook’s “chat” messaging system.
The service is the latest tool from Facebook aimed at improving safety on its site, which has more than 800 million users. Earlier this...
