Today is Martin Luther King Day. To honor the work that Dr. King and so many others have given their lives for, I would like to talk about the Jena Six.
This is an on-going story of racial tension in Jena, Louisiana. The short version that has received national attention began with black students [...]
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Martin Luther King and the Jena Six
Your questions, my answers! (Part 2)
(Written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen.)
“You seem very open, honest, and liberal, but you depict your parents as fairly rigid and conservative. How much do you think your parents impacted who you are and how did they do that? I like the person you present yourself as and I sense that you like yourself as well. [...]
Your questions, my answers! (Part 1)
(Written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen.)
Although this post was originally supposed to be for Friday, I got so many good questions on Wednesday that I did not feel they would all fit in one post. That said, I am still open to more questions for the rest of today or until about 10 PM Eastern time. [...]
Sex Education, or the lack thereof:
(Written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen.)
As many great teachers as my school may have, there is one that I absolutely cannot stand. I was supposed to take Health Education in my sophomore year and I really wish I had. Unfortunately it would not fit in my schedule till my junior year. The coach that left at [...]
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 [...]
My voice, teen voices
Today, I have no voice. Literally. We’re passing a little cold around our house, and it seems to have hit me the worst. (Hence the late post today - sorry about that!) So yesterday afternoon as I was teaching my second class of the day, my voice disintegrated into nothing. [...]
The One Question Rule
Several weeks ago I wrote about using the Socratic method. And while I stand by what I said in that post, I realized through talking with several parents that I need to include a caveat: the Socratic method only works if you are in a completely calm and open place. It only [...]
Okay, so the US isn’t so bad after all
I’m actually, grudgingly, impressed. There are a fair number of US-based websites that provide good information about sex and sexuality to teenagers. What there is not is the plethora of organizations that provide actual services to teenagers (and younger children) like there is in England. (You can see my post from yesterday [...]
England’s got it right
There are many very cool resources about sex and sexuality for teenagers in the UK. I’ve spent some time this week surfing through them, and thought some of you might be interested as well. (I have a fair number of readers from England, but the Internet sides of these organizations are clearly available [...]
How to Survive Thanksgiving with Teenagers
Ah…those endless days at home or at your grandmother’s house, with no one but family in sight. If you’re not out of town, it doesn’t really matter, because everyone else is anyway… None of the family cares about the things you care about, and they all make it very obvious by ignoring you [...]
