(Written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen.)
Hi, I am going to be the guest blogger for the next two weeks while your regular host is away on vacation! I am an 18-year-old male and I am currently a senior in a residential high school that concentrates on math and science. I live at school approximately 10 months [...]
Archives for December, 2007
An Introduction by JustAnotherTeen
My review of Juno
I loved Juno. I thought it was a smart, interesting, and real portrayal of teenage pregnancy. What struck me as surprising was that Juno is really a movie for adults about a teenager. It’s more common to see movies about teenagers for teenagers.
There are plenty of positive, even rave reviews of Juno. Mostly the praise centers around fully-formed portrayals of smart [...]
Guest blogging teenager
I am delighted to announce that a guest blogger has offered his services while I am gone during the two weeks after Christmas. JustAnotherTeen is his psudonym of choice. He is 18 years old, and has had sex with his girlfriend. I’ve had some conversations with JustAnotherTeen, and I think everyone will be really interested [...]
Britney Spears’s sister’s teenage pregnancy
So Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. At sixteen. She announced this apparently news-worthy information through OK! Magazine, and everyone from the Huffington Post to MTV feels compelled to weigh in on this one. So, I figured, why not me too? I mean, this is clearly the biggest teenage sex scandal of [...]
What kind of sex education does your state have?
Virginia has recently joined a group of 13 other states in refusing abstinence-only “sex education” funding from the federal government. Basically, this allows these states to design their own sex education programs - theoretically because they want one that is comprehensive rather than abstinence-only. Where does your state stand? Here are the [...]
Interesting blog
I ran across this blog the other day, and I think it’s worth sharing: The Virtual Mystery Tour: How the Internet impacts teen sexuality for better or for worse. It’s written by Dr. Kris Gowen, author of Sexual Decisions: The Ultimate Teen Guide and Image and Identity. (I haven’t read either of these books, so [...]
Christmas vacation!
We all need a break–a nice, long vacation–every now and again. It seems that adults just don’t get that very often. This time of the year, the lucky ones get Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off, and maybe New Year’s Day. I could go on about the lack of balance in our [...]
Interested in being a guest blogger?
I will be leaving on vacation for the two weeks after Christmas. I’m hoping to find a guest blogger who can post 3 to 5 times, both weeks, about some aspect of adolescent sexuality. It’s really quite a fun experience - my last guest blogger really enjoyed it! Anyone interested?
Making the holidays
A friend has a teenage son. She was trying to figure out something to make him for Christmas. Of course, this is a very individual thing, and different teenagers like different kinds of things. But here are some ideas of things to make for teenagers:
food (cookies, especially sugar cookies cut and decorated to [...]
