Time to Smile Coaching

Introduction: Being a teen is tough, it always has been. Their bodies are growing faster than their brains. Some of their body parts are growing faster than others. There's pressure for grades, sports, sex, drinking or drugs, and all the things that goes along with growing up. It's always been hard. Now, it's all online. You don't do cyber bullying, sex, and drugs unless you're addicted, depressed, or anxious. Role models used to promote, "Just say no." and "Stranger danger". Now, they're Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber. Divorce rate is over 50%, and kids really don't know where to turn. I'm not saying that I have all the answers, but I believe in talking to our kids, and letting them know that they are worth more than a cheap picture or a quick high. Peer pressure and bullying are real, but when kids are taught, that it will end, that they do have a future outside that building they call school, and that they do have options and self-worth. Maybe, just maybe, drug rates, suicide rates, and mass shootings won't feel like their only options.