i think i figured it out
teens need to be told the risk of what ever it is they are doing
i actually got the idea off some army guy on TV talking about hurricanes
but it seemed a good strategy
teaching people how to assess the risk factors, and making people aware of the risk factors?
teens don't understand really why what they do is dangerous
and parents and other adults are often vague
there is a lot of yelling too, and moralizing
which alienates teens and they get upset and they run right out and do whatever you tell them not to,
or what other people, who don't have their best interests in hand, want them to do
i guess maybe just talking to them calmly about the real dangers of drinking and drugs and sex and such, like sexual predators,
teach them about life?
teens want to be cool and have fun and go to a party
they are really naive, they want to be in love or have a crush
basically teens are still kids
they can be reasoned with though, maybe
i find children hard to reason with
but while childish they are not stupid and they tend to reject weirdness
like PV, you can't abuse someone horribly and then expect them to really take to heart what you said
it just alienates them and hurts them
and they run right out and drink or do drugs or something
the teens are not purposely being bad
the are just inexperienced and in over their heads
so any way risk assessment and then awareness explained in a clear and calm manner?
listen as well of course, keep yelling to a minimum.
this works for homework too, i think a lot of teens need someone to sit down with them and teach them study skills
i think they tend to get overwhelmed and then they feel like they can't do the work,
if you can teach them they can do the work and how,
they start to feel better about themselves
the pressure around school lets up
and they start to be less self destructive or reactive
also what is with the damn Brittany Spears crap on every TV channel
why is it always the women on TV that are acting over sexualized and stupid?
it's like a morality tale
are there not male child stars behaving badly?
men are just as bad as women by far
why are only women depicted this way on the TV?
and who the hell is Brittany Spears anyway?
or Lindsey Lohan? she was in a couple b kids movies?
why are these people on CNN?
are there no other stars, that are actually stars,
I'm sorry being a teeny bopper pop person does not make you anyone?
why all this focus on these few stars?
it's on every other damn channel with a definite morality bent,
Is this the case outside of the bible belt as well?
here in the bible belt it is really obvious!
Also according to a science elective I have to take at the state school I transferred too, the ancient history of medicine.
the Greeks since 350 BC had a very effective birth control
They used a plant called Silphium as a contraceptive, it basically does the same thing modern birth control does.
This was apparently 90% or so effective!
Silphium was used elsewhere since 700 BC .
Also juniper berry is a pretty effective uterine spasmodic and Native Americans used it as a contraceptive,
don’t take it internally, that’s not how they used it,
get someone over eighteen to buy the morning after pill,
this is ancient medicine!
They also used it as a morning after pill because it causes uterine spasms
Therefore, we have had effective birth control since 700 BC,
God does not want people who can’t afford them or who are children themselves having children as punishment for sex,
this is Taliban thinking people
And poor women, as always they are the ones getting stoned
Teaching sex safety in a scientific and medically related way,
simply keeps young women from being abused
prejudice in relation to sex and underage teens is horrible
i think God is in life, not some old white guy looking down on it
