Keeping you aware of trends

It seems like trends among teenagers change everyday, but as I hear and read things I want to keep you up to date on certain trends that we know are happening. These are all related to drug use in some way.  There are some crazy things happening (Like K2 being smoked in the place of [...]

Chatroulette: A new fad among students

Just saw this on yahoo…wanted to pass it along…Chatroulette Watch it here Basically people can visit random peoples webcams and chat!  Scary thought huh?  What’s your initial reaction to this? UPDATE FEB. 24th: Just found this article about Chatroulette…a little more detail or understanding of the site and its consequences…here is the article

Mobile Protector

How would you like to be able to effectively take over your teen’s phone and manage it’s use?  Maybe you want to disable the phone while your student is driving so they can’t text or talk on it?  What about when they get it taken away- you can disable it so it can’t be used [...]

Survey says, “our kids might be spoiled”!

I found this article on yahoo that I thought was an interesting discussion starter.  PNC Wealth Management recently surveyed a sampling of wealthy Americans and found that 35% of wealthy Americans are concerned that their children may be “too spoiled by money and have too many material possessions.”  Read the article for yourself. So are [...]

Do you know what your teen is texting?

Did you know that there are currently more than 2,000 texting abbreviations? (LOL, TTYL, NSFW)  And there are more created each day as students look for new ways to shorten messages and give them a cryptic code so there parents have no idea what they are talking about. It is so tough to stay in [...]

Don’t text while driving…

No for real!  I know I have been guilty of it in the past.  But a new study from The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute revealed that texting while driving increased your chances of being involved in an accident by 23 times. Click here to read the entire article

Middle School Sexuality

A survey by Seventeen Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine has given us some very interesting insights into the sexual activity of middle school and junior high students.  Yes, that is what I said- middle school and junior high! Now understand we should be teaching our children the biblical concept of sex inside of marriage!  [...]

Cross Current Time Change

Connection.  Dictionary.com defines connection as a circle of friends or associated or a member of such a circle.  Being connected can do so much for a person.  Take our church for example. Being connected at Sycamore Creek Church lets you know that when things are rough, you have people there to help.  And when things [...]

Abstinence is “Not Realistic at all”

Travel back in time with me to the recent past.  It was fall of 2008 and John McCain was the Republican Presidential Candidate.  He announced his vice presidential running mate, shocking the world with his choice- Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. Fast forward a couple of days, and it comes out that Sarah’s oldest daughter, [...]

Teen Myth Busting

There is an interesting article from the New York Times about “The Myth of Lost Innocence”.  While I don’t necesarily agree with some of the information, I do see a trend that I should warn parents about. We, as parents, need to be very careful to not push our kids to become adult faster than [...]