Angry Young men and Women
Some teens look back, forward, and around them in anger – the ultimate in one-upmanship over the horde of (mostly) working and middle class 1950s British playwrights and novelists. Kingsley Amis,...
View ArticleFat Lot of Good!
Obesity in adolescents is a growing problem, whoever way you look at it. Ironically, it is easy to diagnose – but very difficult to treat. This happens because it is not a simple matter of telling a...
View ArticleNot That Mobile!
We’ve all seen them – the cartoons where the mother calls her child on his mobile phone… to get him to come down to dinner; or the restaurant patron who calls the waiter… to tell him that he would like...
View ArticleA Letter to Miley
Dear Miley You may not be overly familiar with the word twerp, seeing that it is a slang term used mostly by the English. But I have to point out that it is ironically similar to twerk. Young lady – if...
View ArticleSitting Ducks
hands crossed, eyes cast down picture of serenity yet my mind’s frantic This haiku is the digest of a term recently thought up by Stanford University to describe what is happening to teens and youth...
View ArticleTexting Like Crazy!
There was a time when a plain and simple cellular telephone was somewhat of a status symbol. These days, in many peer groups any teen without the ‘in’ model popular with his crowd the risk of being...
View ArticleIs Your Teen S.A.D.?
Most people associate the above acronym with “Social Anxiety Disorder”, never for a moment considering that teens, like adults could be “under the weather” when winter comes around. And yet, “Winter...
View ArticleFat Lot of Good
There was a time when chubby babies made the covers of magazines, and were chosen to advertise baby foods. Baby beauty contests were held – and ever did a baby who did not look like a Sumo wrestler...
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Screen Shot…
It’s cold outside. They huddle close to the heater, tapping away at their keyboards, closed to the outside world and hibernating in their virtual one, peopled by friends and pseudo-friends. This is...
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Death Watch
I had written two posts mentioning suicide. I had hoped never to write another one. But the recent sorry excuse for reportage – a pathetic hotchpotch of biased comments with concerted, subtle, yet...
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