Teens,Sleeping, and Eating...

In the article "Teens Sleeping and Eating" the author talks about the links between teens sleeping habits and eating. The article was about teens that sleep less on average eat more then teens that are getting the recommended time each night. 

The scientists have found that teens that sleep less hours then their bodies need have a greater craving for fatty foods and sugary snacks. Researchers found out that for one hour more of sleep, the odds of eating or drinking high amounts of calories decrease by about twenty percent which will lower the chance of gaining weight. By teens sleeping less they are messing with their metabolisms which it slows down and it’s a gateway to weight gain and over time obesity.

What are your eating habits like and Do you think that sleep really has an effect on ones weight over time?

The Deadly Games That Teens Play

This article went into depth about 3 games that teens play.  The three games in this article were the chocking game, huffing, and car surfing. 

The point of the chocking game is to cut the blood flow to your brain so that you get lightheaded and hopefully hit a high. 

The second game called, huffing, is inhaling chemical vapors to also get light headed or even hit a high. 

And the third and final game was car surfing, in this game a person stands on the car like a surfboard and stays there while the car moves.

Question:  Which game do you believe sounds most deadly, the chocking game, huffing, or car surfing, and why?

Surviving Your Child's Adolescence

According to what Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. said in this article that parents think adolescents are lazy because when we come home from school we sit around and watch tv and don't do anything to help much around the house, when in reality we have responsibilities of our own. 

Without them understanding fully what a day in our shoes would be like, it would make them better understand why at times we are so lazy. He wondered what some teenagers do with their time. This was before he understood what we really do on a normal day as a high schooler.

The question is: As teenagers, are we really lazy, or do we just have too much going on that we don't have the energy to put up with what our parents make us do in the house? Should our parents follow a day in our footsteps to really understand how complicated our lives can be?

How Does Your Teen Cope?

What are some ways you cope with stress and anxiety. Why do you think teens and young adults enter a stage of denial to mask their problems in life?

My article represents a point that, teens and young adults are in denial when it comes to what can or can not happen to them in their lifetime.

 

Teens believe and use the statement, "it won't happen to me" to deny the fact that, yes it can and just may happen. Teens and young adults also place guilt and reason for their problems on their parents. To cope woth their problems, they simply force the blame onto someone else as a way of consciously solving the problem.

 

 

Teen Angst Turns Deadly

Girls today going through middle school and high school are going through a tough time with being themselves, and not accepting what was given to them at birth. 

“The suicide rate for girls’ ages 10-14 increased a whopping 76 percent in 2004 ... for those between 15 and 18, the rate went up more than 30 percent,” says Ms. Zimmer. 

Every girl has the same dream of having that perfect body, a brilliant mind, and keeping up a good reputation. Also with parents pressuring their kids about who they think they should be. With all this stress upon their shoulders it seems the only solution is suicide. 

In your opinion, do you think suicide comes from a failure to be the "perfect girl"?

Adolescence and the Loss of Childhood

This article focuses on when a children becomes a teen they seem to lose their childhood that they once had. Such as caring less about what they loved to do as a child, and also caring less about their parents and what actually pleases their parents. 

Also a teen will most likely start blaming parents, and even starting conflict that they would have never done as a child. This loss of childhood doesn’t hurt the adolescence but it does really hurt the parents. Parents of a child will miss how their teen once behaved before they reached their adolescence stage of life. Also parents will mostly likely turn their pain they have towards anger.

Do you think that teens seem to lose their childhood that they once love? Is it because of children reaching the adolescence stage of life?