Tag Archives : teenagers

The time from Thanksgiving to the New Year, is a time that is marked with joy and nearly unending celebrations. From kids to the elderly, almost everyone revels in the joy and the serene atmosphere of the holidays. The holiday season is further punctuated with the nearly continuous shopping spree, that in the last few years has taken the shape of a [...]

No matter on which side of the fence you are, one thing now is for certain: the use of cellphone does indeed change the configuration of your brain. But the question of the extent of damage that usage of mobiles can cause is still unanswered. If you were to believe the latest study conducted by researchers at Sweden’s Örebro University, then it seems [...]

Driving and teenagers… That is one combination that seems to give sleepless nights to both authorities and parents alike. Yet, it is also one issue that is constantly overlooked and not attended to as well as issues such as DUI in the last few years. Car crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers in the UK today and with one-third of all [...]

Parents, school officials, and health care workers in Ohio have been shocked by revelations that abuse of prescription drugs and heroin is slowly replacing alcohol and marijuana abuse among the youth of the US state. The trend has been rising towards more lethal drugs as prescription pill abuse has progressed into synthetic narcotics like OxyContin, [...]

On April 20 1999, teeners Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, armed with pistols, shotguns, rifles, and hunting knives, and went on a shooting spree that lasted 49 minutes and left 15 people dead. In the weeks that followed, the media were still in a frenzy offering various explanations as to why the [...]

The new practice among teenagers, one of the effects of the benefits of new technologies, may be described as between mischief and pornography. It has caused some serious concern among parents. Today, it is easy for a youth who has a cell phone to be photographed naked and the image sent via the mobile phone. Young Americans have found a new way of [...]