Alot of people in today's world have decided that once a person is able to have sex it is ok as along as they practice safe sex. In my opinion this is the wrong message to be telling today's teens, but on the flip side telling they can't have sex wouldn't work either. When we are told not to do something it often makes us want to do it more. So what should we be telling todays teens?
I believe I was in 9th grade (that's about four years ago) when my Aunt told me, "When you graduate, you get to pick the vacation. Even if it's to another country." It's nice to have an Aunt and Uncle who make a good living and can afford to take themselves (and me) on vacation. I however, am very modest. I didn't want to pick a vacation because I hate the idea of spending too much money.
Nike: a fashionable, very popular amongst teens, and in hip hop.
Nike has a variety of products, the most popular one, being their sneakers. Teens wear them as a luxury item, and we've become so obsesses with them that we've started collecting them, and buying so many.
Real talk:
Today, I was talking to my other friend about the Cinco de Mayo Scholarship Pageant that we're both heavily involved in, when another girl, in our biology class, whom I was not even speaking to, interupts me, while I'm talking to Dennis (my friend), and says, "Do you have to speak spanish to be in the Cinco de Mayo Pageant?" & we both replied with, "No." Then she had the audacity to say, "Oh, goo
A few months ago I had the opportunity to chat with Kendall Ciesemier, the 15-year-old founder of the Kids Caring 4 Kids organization, which provides impoverished African children with food and education. This past September, she appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” with former President Bill Clinton, who came to her high school and spoke at a surprise assembly.
Kendall felt moved to fight for justice in fifth grade, when she watched an Africa special on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” about orphans. One girl her age had lost her family to AIDS, and now she carried the responsibility of raising her younger sibling. Compelled by the orphan’s pain and grief, Kendall signed up to sponsor a child through World Vision that day. Later she expanded her sponsorship to include an entire Zambian village. Her charity eventually grew into a nonprofit organization, Kids Caring 4 Kids.
“It’s gotten so much easier for people to join the force to fight AIDS,” Kendall said at a coffee shop in January 2008.
Our prom was last night, and while there I realized something. America is obsessed with sex. Now I mean I've known that for a long time, but not the extent I saw last night. I know it's prom and things are going to get a bit out of hand, but seriously this was dangerous.
*note: This one requires some information about me first. I am 18 and a senior in highschool.
I was talking with an old friend of mine the other day about random political issues, and he seemed very adamant on his stance on several of them. I asked him who he think he would vote for to accomplish those things and he said, "oh, i'm not voting."
So for once in a blue moon Maury is doing something other than paternity tests on his show.
Today, he has 13 year old girls that are completely out of control.
And these girls are seriously fucked up! These girls are cutting school, doing drugs, drinking, having sex with guys in their 20's. What were you doing at 13?
