...The case of school start times has emerged as a prominent issue that appears to be growing in distinction within communities. Doctors and parents are pushing for schools to switch to later start times in order to accommodate for teen’s lack of sleep. Moreover, doctors believe that teen sleep deprivation is a side effect of excruciatingly early school start times. Nonetheless, these communities fail to see the financial difficulty in schools delaying their start times. Overall, it is the habits that teens practice which causes students to be less focused in their studies. Rather than changing school start times, students must learn to adjust to these start times and demonstrate habits that will become beneficial towards their overall health....
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...Position Paper Teen Suicide 04 November 2014 Instructor: Course: Identification of the Issue The term suicide is defined as the intentional taking of your own life, or by deliberate inaction, allowing your life to be taken (according to www.mentalhelp.net). The ways people commit suicide varies, but the act of suicide itself remains the same. Some people overdose on prescription pills, slit their wrists, shoot themselves the list goes on. In 2010, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that suicide is the third leading cause of death for college aged youth and ages 12-18. Teenagers experience low self esteem issues as a result of peer pressure, bullying, love lost, stress and confusion within the family whether it is due to divorce, financial uncertainty, domestic abuse or substance abuse. And for these reasons teens may associate suicide with being the solution to their problem. Causes for the Problem The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected data in 2012 (most recent year for which data was obtained), 40,600 suicides were reported, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. In that year someone in the United States died by suicide every 12.9 minutes. Shockingly, after cancer and heart disease, suicide accounts for more years of life lost than any other cause of death. Statistics also shows that males are twice more likely to commit suicide than females. As far as ethnicity rates,...
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...fix what isn't broken? While some might argue, if minors can't stay out as late, they can't be out causing mischief, but those who see teens in such a pessimistic way also fail to realize there are young adults who use their time after school for jobs, or other demanding responsibilities. Making adjustments to the curfew would only make things more difficult than they are right now by wasting police enforcements time with petty stops, by making teens lose opportunities to work during the week, and by causing more resentment from adolescents....
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...Teen pregnancy is one of the major problems happening in this generation. The media and television has influenced the growth of teen pregnancy as being a good thing. Programs are set up and help from other sources give tips to expecting teens as they begin their journey to parenthood. Teen pregnancy doesn’t only have huge health risk to mother and baby, but it also has a big impact on teen parent’s lives. There are many things you must know if you’re a pregnant teen. Maintaining your health and responsibilities are some of the main priorities when it comes to dealing with teen pregnancy. To help understand your pregnancy more, you should ask yourself questions that you are able to answer. Set priorities, you can do this by making a list of things that are positive and negative to you, then compare the list and choose the list with the best options for you. You are no longer able to have fun and just party whenever you want, raising a baby at a young age affects your abilities to do things...
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...Sports... the main reason for kids/teens wanting to go back to school every year towards the end of summer and because of that, the school shouldn't get rid of sports. Sports are the thing that is basically the support system of your child physical, and emotional development. Sports have a pretty big impact on the students health, because sports allow kids to be able to be active year round. One of the reasons that's always brought up is how sports seem to make the athlete fail in school... which is wrong. What parents don't know is that their children's personality and emotional development comes from being in a school sport. Needless to say, sports don't only give kids more confidence in themselves but it also gives them more rewarding friendships. To add to that, sports help gain high self esteem a load full. The learners that don't do school sports, normally lakhs in self confidence and low self esteem. In a year round study that the, The National Federation of State High School Activities Associations, did shows that...
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...will go through tribulations. When one goes through those tribulations they can’t just give up. One must keep on going or like how Dory says from, “Finding Nemo” the movie, “Just keep swimming.” this quote is stating one should keep on going and do what makes one happy in becoming successful. A good example of achieving a goal is the story of Kewauna’s. This story talks about a young girl in which fails in the beginning of her life and after a while it hits her and she wants...
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...Stopping Teen Pregnancy Every single day, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there are 8 fifteen year olds, 24 sixteen year olds and 32 seventeen years olds who give birth. These children are 18% more likely to delay receiving prenatal care and 16% have preterm labor, while 10% of the babies are in the low birth weight category (Teen Birth Fact Sheets, 2011 pg 1-2). Each school district has a health curriculum, which includes sexuality beginning in the 5th grade. The curriculum based on the core values of abstinence is the focus. What the facts are showing is that this type of program is not working. There needs to be an agenda that gives these teens all the facts. Many say that is the parent’s right, but when they do not do their job then it becomes society’s burden. This state and country for that matter, needs to create a new generation who will not have any babies before they are grown themselves. Full facts based, no holds barred curriculum beginning in the 6th grade, which speaks about the traditional topics that your body does in puberty, and then goes further as they continue through school is the goal. Children need to know where babies come from and how not to have one until you are ready. The use of a comprehensive sex education program and giving menstruating girls long-term birth control will stop teen pregnancy in Texas. Each year there are more than 23,000 babies born to teen mothers. "Texas has the third highest rate of teen births and...
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...women within this pop culture and the way they have started to look at their bodies and see themselves as below average because they are not measuring up to the standards of society. In all reality, media and advertisement must know the effects it has on the young women and their body image in the world, but choose to ignore the fact because of the success that has sky rocketed in the past years. Not many people can ignore the media and find themselves beautiful no matter what features they have, but the ones who do such things are confident and strong while growing up in this tough and harsh world. Ads within television, magazines, newspapers, etc. all have some direct correlation to the media having an effect on the body image of young teens. These ads show beautiful models with long skinny legs, blonde hair, and blue eyes laying on the sand of a tropical island in front of an extraordinary horizon. Although an average person would find this remarkably unbelievable, many of these girls still believe every aspect of the media and constantly judge their bodies and who they are. Young girls going through puberty...
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...Random Teen Drug Testing The Rodziwan family lived a block over from my family in Hempfield township PA. They had a son named Jeremy, he was a great kid, straight A’s, all-star football player, active in Eagle Scouts, and worked in the family business. A child any parent would be proud of. Until one Wednesday night he went out with some friends and over dosed on heroin, there was no reviving him. What no one knew was that he became addicted to heroin eight months ago; if only his parents would have suspected something they could have tried to help him. Unfortunately, there were no signs with Jeremy; he just seemed like such a great kid. The schools in our area have begun to randomly drug test students whose parents allow it starting in 6th grade. Many parents are in an uproar about this, “not my kid” they say. I think every parent should take advantage of this amazing opportunity that the school district is providing them. It’s time to wake up, open our eyes and realize that 33,000 teens die each year because of drug over dose. If your child’s school is offering at home random drug testing, take it, even if you think your child never would. I believe that there are great benefits to this and they outweigh anything that could be viewed as a downfall. The average age to try drugs for the first time is thirteen or 7th grade. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2009) almost two-thirds of all teens have tried drugs by this age. I think it is pretty much common...
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...ignore any relationship that isn’t heteronormative. Abstinence programs frequently talk about relationships between a man and a woman, but fail to elaborate on the many types of relationships present in today’s society. What, then, are non-heterosexual people supposed to do in a relationship? Since the greatest consequence of sex is a non-curable STD, not teaching everyone about protection and STD prevention means they don’t know how life-threatening unsafe sex can...
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...Walking down the school hallway is the most uplifting part of my day. Shocking, right? Most high schoolers feel like school hallways are the ocean, where great white sharks constantly await for the easiest bait to pass by so that they can attack and eat up the little fish. However, my experience isn’t exactly like that. I am more of a shiny gold fish. Walking down the school hallway, this shiny gold fish is bombarded by compliments from angelfish. “You are so cute!” “You look so good today oh my god!” “Can we be best friends??” Walking down the school hallway, despite being the most uplifting part of my day, happens to be the most aggravating part of my day. Walking down the school hallway, I am reminded every period that I am only noticed...
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...percent of all marriages in the United States ended in divorce in 2011 (CDC, 2011). Of the forty percent, more than half of those divorces involved children and/or adolescents (Amato, 2000). Adolescence is a confusing time filled with body changes, the challenge of no longer being a child, but not quite ready for adulthood, and the need to establish their own identity. When a teenager’s parents make the decision to divorce it complicates the teenagers life and interrupts the stability that they need during adolescence. DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECTS The adolescent years are a time when children become teenagers on their journey towards eventually becoming adults. A major developmental shift happens between the ages of twelve and eighteen as teenagers begin to develop their identity. These adolescents have the task of discovering their purpose and place in the world. They are attempting to limit their reliance on their parents although they are not completely ready for independence. Teenagers are attempting to establish their own life through friendships, social networking and activities while they are expected to maintain a stable family relationship. This is a challenging and...
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...GAMBLING; WIN, LOSE OR DRAW? "Just like a chemically addicted person, a compulsive gambler will do anything in order to get the money for a fix. To satisfy their habit, teens have been known to borrow tens of thousands of dollars from loan sharks, sell drugs, and even steal money from parents, boyfriends or girlfriends."(Howey : 1999) At fourteen, an eighth-grader from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida became hooked on gambling. It all started with one bet on a jai alai match. Within a few years he was cutting class and spending 2500 dollars a week on jai alai. He even began stealing money from his parents and the theme park where he worked. By sixteen, Michael G. was an addict.(Nesbit : 1998) Compulsive gambling is an issue that is affecting millions of teenagers nationwide. The thrill of winning money and the attention gained from doing so is enough to cause an addiction. And since gambling is illegal for people under the age of eighteen, it seems more alluring to those who are not of legal age to play. Teens seem to think that gambling is harmless fun, but they have no idea of the problems that can come from it. "As more teens are being drawn into the culture of chance, gambling is influencing American society in deep and unexpected ways."(Morgan : 1996) In teens, at least five percent are problem gamblers and at least nine percent are at risk of having problems.(Franey : 2005) Time Magazine stated that one eight of the country's problem gamblers...
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...are free to express these opinions but there are some who express it over that sometimes they may hurt someone’s feelings. If this will be repeatedly done and is getting worse that they can really affect the mental behavior of someone, then this will be called as bullying. Bullying is the repeated and systematic harassment or attack on someone. It is a habitual abuse and forcing someone to act in involuntary manner. Actually there are three types of bullying; emotional, verbal and physical. The most common thing is the verbal bullying. It’s the bullying with the use of words. It can be a form of racial comments, sexual comments, insults and name-calling. This type of bully is done everywhere but for students, verbal bullying is common in schools. Words are...
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...(3) Proposed in his paper in 1943 A Theory of Human Motivation, His theory contents that as humans meet their basic needs, they seek to satisfy higher basic needs. His theory seems to complement Freud, Eriksson’s and Piaget theories because for stable, positive healthy development of children into adolescence these theories must be established. Maslow's famous Hierarchy of Need was introduced in the late 1960's. These needs represented man functioning on different levels instead of the simple mechanics of behaviorism introduced by Watson in 1919. Thus man was no longer a knee-jerk mechanism responding only to stimuli and reinforcement. It also indicated that man could overcome the unconscious instinctual impulses implicit in the various schools of psychoanalysis. Several examples would be if a child is neglected by parents whom neither show love, affection, warmth nor allow that child to...
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