Want to talk about some personal stuff - your emotions???

June 26th, 2009

Let’s talk about this.

  • Sexual tensions
  • Sexual roles
  • Lovely feelings
  • Wanting to be loved by your loved ones
  • Staying Close To Family
  • Parents
  • Understanding Parents
  • Non-Understand Parents
  • Meeting People who Understand
  • Caring, not Committing
  • Staying on top of your HEALTH

Cereals… - you will not believe how much SODIUM.. read this

June 26th, 2009

Most cereals, you will see, have between 100-250mg SODIUM.

You will wonder, how the HELL can I find a CEREAL that has VERY LITTLE or NO SODIUM.

Watch this… go to the grocery store, and get yourself some:

KASHI, AUTUMN WHEAT or KASHI INNAMON HARVEST.

It’s great for FIBER (take a good digestion) & ZERO (nothing) SALT/SODIUM count.

AMAZING!!!!!

Biting Off More Than You Can Chew…

June 26th, 2009

This is a special situation where you should understand the difference between WHAT YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH vs. WHAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH…

Remember, don’t fool yourself into thinking you need to take on all these activities, and then later, find out that you committed yourself to too many and are now disappointed…. let’s see here…

WHO’S FAULT IS IT NOW?

you don’t need 1000 friends or even 100 friends…

June 26th, 2009

Being insecure is a big deal.  - you really think you need that many people to accept you…

NOT!!!

FOOD INTAKE: take in less CALORIES than you burn out, you will see progress - FOOD PLAYS huge role in maintaining a solid healthy diet.

June 26th, 2009

Teens having really absurd eating habits… MUNCHIES?

June 26th, 2009

Why Why…well, ofcourse, it’s beause teens are more active… in school, growing and still full of energy.

As they get older and and more serious, they tend to slow down, but not until mid 20’s when they began to feel different, atleast, can feel the difference from one state of year, to another year of the aging.

It’s quite interesting how food intakes makes a different in ANY PERSON’s LIFE.

Teen Depression: Palo Alto, school officials talk about teen depression in response to recent deaths

June 26th, 2009

[CREDIT: MERCURYNEWS.COM]

In response to recent apparent suicides and attempted suicides by local high school students, Palo Alto school, police and city officials are beginning to collaborate on a communitywide plan to address the mental health needs of young residents.

Though they haven’t yet determined a specific course of action, school district administrators, City Council members, police and others met at the district office Wednesday for a School City Liaison Committee meeting. They shared what each individual agency is already doing and discussed what to try next.

Student Services Director Carol Zepecki said the school district is “definitely seeing more incidents of anxiety or depression.” The economic crisis has been difficult for families, she said, and young people often have trouble with transitions, such as those between high school and college.

There’s no indication Palo Alto sees more adolescent depression than other cities, meeting attendees agreed. But in general, Zepecki said, even younger children are “more complex” nowadays.

The various agencies plan to form a “coordinating committee” made up of representatives from the schools, the city, the medical community and other involved groups that would hold regular meetings to help streamline efforts. The committee could also be responsible for developing public responses to tragedies such as the recent deaths of two Gunn High School students, who committed suicide on the Caltrain railroad tracks

in May. A third student was later stopped from running onto the tracks that same month.Within the school district, Zepecki said officials would develop suicide and crisis intervention plans, and might consider adding more “emotional quotient” work to school curriculums.

The district also plans to provide more training for staff and to make sure regular training includes information about suicide warning signs.

“This is not standard information that your ordinary person just knows,” school board member Melissa Baten Caswell said.

Baten Caswell said she heard some Gunn staff members felt “really out of their element” dealing with the recent crises.

Palo Alto City Councilman John Barton said the city and schools need to create a place where students can feel connected to their peers and the community.

“I know we try, but we don’t succeed,” he said.

Palo Alto’s teen center successfully brings middle-schoolers together, city officials said, but the city hasn’t been able to develop a similar program to attract older students. High-schoolers often complain there’s nothing to do in Palo Alto on weekends, Baten Caswell said.

City recreation coordinator Jessica Lewis said some teens may feel they simply don’t have time for community activities.

While some meeting attendees said the community needs to focus on small, achievable steps for now, Barton worried the proposed ideas were just “scratching the surface.” “I think we need to radically rethink our high schools,” Barton said. “I think we need to radically rethink what it means to be a teenager in this town.”