Well, I was on Public Health Agency of Canada; I looked through it a little more and I found information on how to help teens cope. What I see and hear from my peers is violence and how one person does someone bad and they want revenge. For example, someone beats up a friend and they will fight them to hurt someone close to them. Then that guy wants revenge again and it goes on. We have to take that energy for revenge and turn it into "conversation to the underlying feelings, tell them how you feel and discuss positive options other than revenge."
Another thing that is going on is that my peers are dieing for affection. Some children don't have parents or if they do have parents the parents are never there or they are a drunk or a drug user. Some have no home at all so they join gangs for affection and money.
A lot of things I see with girls is that they want the perfect image that they see on T.V. and they have to be like that and look like that.
The website listed some suggestions, some more helpful than others. Most of the information I got was for parents to help their teens. There was not any specific for teens to do to help them cope. But I did get some good information like reactions. How to help- listen and be affectionate to your teens.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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