Back in the 1940s and 1950s, smoking cigarettes was considered to be cool, sophisticated and suave. The social trend caused millions of Americans to take on the habit of smoking. At that time, it was more of a social fad than anything else. For a few years, both of my parents smoked, that is until
Teenagers have followed fads for many decades. When I was a teenager, the fads were to either have a Beatles haircut and worship their music or to embrace Surfer hairstyles and music. Of the nearly 700 students in my high school graduating class, it seemed that at least 75%-80% were either a Beatle or Surfer.
When I was a kid, smoking was very common among adults but not kids. If you look at many of the television programs and movies from before 1970, you will see just how popular smoking was. In the evenings during prime-time television, there seemed to be as many cigarette commercials as there were for any
For decades, teenagers have been known to pursue one fad after another. When I was teen, it was in the days when the Beatles became popular along with a genre of music known as surfer music. Millions of American teens got a Beatles’ or surfer hair-cut. Then came the flower-power hippie movement and once again,
Suicide is a topic that few people are willing to talk about, especially parents with their kids. Most parents will tell you that there is no way any of their kids would ever think of suicide and many of them are so very wrong. I planned my own suicide when I was 19. I’ve always
Just a few decades ago, parents still had legal authority over their minor children. Nothing medically could be done to them or for them without parental knowledge and consent. However, in today’s liberal America, there is a concerted effort to undermine parental authority. Many public schools have partnered with Planned Parenthood to bring their sex
Even the most popular kids online deal with cyberbullying. “99.9 percent of all the comments are so nice and so empowering and motivating and supportive [but] there’s that, like, one, tiny, like, .01 percent that are just, like, so angry at their life that they want to hate on you,” YouTube star Lauren Riihimaki (a.k.a. LaurDIY) said
