I’ve just finished taking two days’ worth of standardized testing at school, so I’m tired. I have a post in progress, but right now I’d just like to sit and not think or write. I went to Hair recently, and it started with the hippies in the audience smoking weed, handing out flowers, and hanging [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Slow Days
Posted in Quotation, Short, tagged adults, Funny, Hair, quote on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quick Information
Posted in Short, Statistics, tagged fun, serious, stastics, teenagers on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Percentage of American teenagers who report that their schoolwork makes them anxious: 82; Who report that their love life does: 57.
Percentage of teenagers who lose their virginity in their own or their partner’s home: 54; In a parked car: 12.
Percentage of teenagers’ favorite songs that they say are about sex, violence, satanism, or drugs: 7; [...]
Having “The Talk” with Oprah Winfrey
Posted in Parenting, tagged children, Oprah, sex, sexuality, teenagers, The Talk on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I spent today watching Oprah for the sex talk a guest doctor helped give to a woman’s 10 year-old daughter. The mother was incredibly nervous–and even teared up–simply because she didn’t want to “say the wrong thing to [her] daughter.” And very reasonable, because the way children are raised they can become very frightened of [...]
