Tag: adolescence
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August 10, 2007 12:08 AM EDT --
Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.
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April 24, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
The Museum Of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa, Florida has and exhibit called The Amazing You. This exhibit will give you vast insight into the beginning of life, childhood, and adolescence . . .
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April 14, 2008 04:28 PM EDT --
Talk about strange; for a variety of different reasons, I haven't been around Gather much, and when I logged on today, everything was totally different. I am not sure I like it; what does everyone . . .
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October 05, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
I remember my adolescence so well. It was a traumatic time for me at home, but school was also filled with trauma.
When I was in the seventh grade, my family moved to Pennsylvania. I didn't . . .
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October 29, 2006 12:02 PM EST --
It Kinda hurts
to see children grow up wild
and use the currency of pain
for pain brings agony, little else
It kinda hurts
to see urchins wiser than their years
swindling, lying, cheating all the time . . .
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March 03, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold . . .
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May 26, 2008 01:27 AM EDT --
In the little white house on the corner with the white picket fence, lives a girl, no more than thirteen, up in her room, sitting in front . . .
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September 09, 2008 03:08 PM EDT --
There are a number of signs and symptoms common to adolescent stress, depression and drug use. Parents and other adults should not automatically jump to the conclusion that their teen is using illegal . . .
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March 10, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
Being a mother of a 10-year-old girl I am often tormented by constantly lowered standards teenage girls live by in today's world. My girl's puberty approaches fast, faster than I would . . .
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October 26, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
Have you ever felt that your kids hate you or despise you or simply don't care about what you have to say? Ever felt like they try to do things simply to be unlike you? Ever wanted to know why this . . .
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November 06, 2007 01:40 PM EST --
My daughter, who will be 15 next month, was brought home last night by the police; I had taken her to her friend's house at 5:30 with strict instructions to be home by 8:30. I even went in and . . .
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March 21, 2008 09:28 PM EDT --
Parents of teens often fret over their kids' crazy schedules. We call it "vampire hours" -- up all hours at night, then sleeping away the daytime. My . . .
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September 02, 2008 12:00 AM EDT --
Today I think about my son; soon we will take time to share a walk together, a tradition we started on his birthday nine years ago. It was then we made a promise to continue doing so through . . .
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October 06, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
I have been in the process of trying to rewrite some of my earliest installments of "Worthless" and have definitely made some changes, though not major ones. I'm hoping to make it read . . .
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May 07, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . .
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August 14, 2007 06:45 AM EDT --
I was kissed by Andy Gibb when I was 14. It was the summer of 1977, before the U.S. Hostages were taken by students in Iran and a time when the country was still healing from the Watergate . . .
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November 15, 2007 01:39 PM EST --
In my own life, and in reading different posts here on Gather, a lot of different questions have been coming up for me. Most recently, in another post, a woman said something about her son's . . .
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December 11, 2007 11:21 AM EST --
I am looking out the picture window here at work at a transformed world; it snowed yesterday and is now really, really cold; for at least a day or so, the drab browns and grays of winter are covered up, . . .
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November 15, 2007 06:34 PM EST --
Whoa-I just had the strangest experience. I had to go home to pick up Hannah (to bring her back to owrk with me) and on the way back here to the office, I caught a glimpse of a kid out of the corner . . .
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May 20, 2008 03:45 PM EDT --
Wearing a pink, cap-sleeved cotton dress underneath the white graduation robe, I stood at the lectern and read my presentation to the congregation. It was June 3, 1951, and I was graduating from . . .
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