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Alex Sanchez: Not Allowed To Address Gay Adolescence in New Brunswick High Schools

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:48:00 -0500

Canadians love to believe that we are tolerant. We particularly pride ourselves in comparing our policies with American policies. In Canada gay marriage has been legal for sometime now; whereas in the US it is still an issue of serious co

Sex and the question of uncosciousness

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:33:42 -0500

With the house full of teenagers you have issues regarding sex floating around in the air all the time, and so memories tend to arise in us who walk this planet for some time already. I remember that I was extremely interested in sex from my early te

World Mental Health Day

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:42:44 -0500

World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2008 A MESSAGE FROM INSPIRE CEO, KERRY GRAHAM Friday, 10 October is World Mental Health Day, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for helping tens of thousands of young people lead happier lives.

A Rant About Underage Pornography

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:50:40 -0500

Yesterday, I received an email that turned my stomach. It came from someone, let’s call her “M”, who seems to favor child pornography, and she has written to me the sleaziest email I’ve yet seen. Sleazy, because she advocate

Celebrating Singledom

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:56:00 -0500

After reading this post, I realised that I forgot an important date! I was planning to celebrate 4 Years Of Gloriously Boring and Mildly Exciting Single Life or 4 Years Of Singledom(simply put) on Oct. 2nd which was the day when 13 year old me was st

On Adolescence and the Meaning of Life

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:04:43 -0500

Back in the years when I spent so much time with adolescents and young adults that I might easily speak at length with two dozen or so of the smooth skinned people in a single day, I noticed how a few “big” or “deep” topics we

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:59:00 -0500

Directed by Tomas AlfredsonMagnolia PicturesThere tends to be a queer sensibility about female vampires in film, whether explicit or subtextual. Eli, the twelve-year-old vampire character in the Swedish film Let the Right One In, is no exception to t

Has anyone read these?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:03:00 -0500

I made a trip to the library today and picked up two new books. Has anyone read these? Here are the blurbs from Amazon.com on the books. Hopefully both prove to be worth the read.Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig.These interlockin

Give us back some heavy duty maturity rituals

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:00:11 -0500

When I manage to observe my teenagers with empathy, I can see that they have a tough time trying to figure out their position in this world and their identity. Perhaps a tougher time than my generation had. This new generations, at least in the moder

The G.S. Thursday Writing Prompt: Young Love, Good Poetry, and Other Lies.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:09:47 -0500

Tell about a time in which you told a fabrication, a half-truth, or an outright lie. Was it an innocent little lie or a whopper? Did you get found out or did you come clean with it later? Or perhaps you got away with it and have lived to lie another

Sex Ed Helps Teens Delay First Intercourse

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:44:24 -0500

Sex education remains important because kids still harbor “mythology” about sex, says Claire Brindis, interim director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco. “Some still believ

shame!

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:25:58 -0500

the freshman carpool shame! by aracelli o’neill glossarie staff writer F our sets of mothers and daughters make-up our freshman car pool. Although we don’t quite see it, we understand that other women and girls regard the eight

shotgun dialogues

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:50:21 -0500

the freshman carpool shotgun dialogues by aracelli o’neill glossarie staff writer e very drive-around mom in America must have a pretty strong feeling about the value of those precious few, intensely private “shotgun” dialogues

First Bras, Boyfriends, and Wedding Dresses—Or How to Raise a Daughter

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:42:08 -0500

It must have been quite a challenge raising a daughter on his own. He was a mellow fellow. He moved slowly and had slow responses when you asked him a question. I, on the other hand, was a hyperactive kid and loved to talk and talk and talk. I recall

The Crush

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:54:00 -0500

I can remember when I was in middle school and started to develop crushes on boys. I can remember giving and receiving little notes that said, do you like me? There were two boxes that the recipient of the note had to check either yes or no to the ab

Troubled teenage girls have sex earlier

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:42:35 -0500

Teenage girls from poor neighbourhoods with conduct issues are more likely to have sex at an early age, according to a joint Canadian-American study. Researchers from the Université de Montréal, the University of New Brunswick and New England’

Sex Education: Will Palin Move It Backwards?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:54:00 -0500

Decades ago in the 1950's young women learned about sex either when they started their periods or when they got pregnant. Where babies came from was skipped over with smiles from folks to children who were told stories about heaven and angels and Go

On The Way

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:00:44 -0500

I confess. Adrenaline is my drug of choice (followed closely by hot caffeine). I spend a lot of time at events and on the way to events. Saturday was no exception. The four of us each had our list of events. I had mine, was helping with Nancy’s

Voler l’identité de sa fille pour devenir cheerleader…

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:23:20 -0500

Elle s'appelle Wendy Brown, elle a 33 ans et habite le Wisconsin. Elle vient d'être arrêtée pour s'être fait passer pour sa fille...

Si j’étais (9)

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:01:44 -0500

Toute petite (le premier qui dit que je n’ai pas beaucoup grandi je lui fais bouffer son écran !) j’aurais commencé à chantonner pour un oui ou pour un non. Chantonner, chantonner à m’étourdir saouler mon environnement ! J