Peer Pressure

This my teen issue is going to be on peer pressure. Peer pressure is another big issue that most kids will deal with throughout their schooling and even later on in your career. Peer pressure can come with many different things like with trying drugs and/or alcohol, having sex, being pushed into something you don't want to be popular or just doing it to fit in generally. Being pressured to do drugs is something that could cause harm to your life or get you killed with an overdose. Being pressured to do drugs is something that people lower than you try to do, to also make they feel more confident and are trying to get you with them. Pressure in doing drugs is not worth the risk of life or death and or the loss of brain damage, which also goes with the fact of alcohol. Alcohol is another pressure that many teens struggle with to be in the in crowd. Many go to different parties and do not have the intention of drinking, they just want to go in order to have fun and a good time with their friends, but then you have other people that want you to drink. They are thinking if you drink then you will lose yourself and do anything. That anything could be having sex. Some guys could try getting a girl drunk or the other way around in order to just sleep with them. So alcohol could loss all inhibitions in a person and could also cause for drunk driving. Teenagers could be more likely to take part in drunk driving because they do not want to tell their parents or they want to think their cool because they want to try to act cool. A good amount of children are peer pressured to do many things out of the fact that they could get more popular. Popular people get someone that is not like them to do things that could cause harm and they think would be funny to see. They cause someone to do what they do not want, but something they do in order to be cool. You may not think of yourself like this, but at some point in your life you have tried to be in a crowd you think would be better, but it is not always better on the other side. Just because you think they are better do not believe it until you actually know that they are not lying and playing with your head. People will do some pretty stupid things in order to just fit in with some or any type of crowd, everyone wants to fit in somewhere and belong to something, with that they will try to fit it at any cost. Do not try to fit in, be yourself and except what you are and what you want to become in life. You are worth the fact of having your own mind and not someone else telling you what you should do or be. Check back next week for more teen issues.

Bullying

Bullying is something that people do more ways than one, you have verbal and then physical. 

People will do these things to hurt people and on the other hand boost themselves.Many kids 

around the world experience bullying daily, some even commit suicide in order to relieve them 

from it all. If you're reading this and get bullied have a voice to say something about it, do 

something.I had trouble most of the time in my first school I went to and I had trouble in the 

beginning of high school. I did something to fix what was happening and it mostly got resolved.

Verbal abuse is probably the most common form of bullying there is in school. Most parents

 may not realize this, but its what you say that hurts and that they need to help stop bullying.

 When you get bullied they make you feel like your nothing, they make you fell like your not

 worth going anymore, but you are and you need to persevere to fight the cause and statistics.

 I want to write this and hope that it inspires anyone who reads it to either stop bullying or stand 

up for yourself. They can not take away your voice. If you tell a teacher and nothing is done go 

higher up and see if you get any further there do not give up, you will get somewhere with time.

 Verbal bullying is when all you do is say hurtful things to someone all the time and put them down

 with words and just because your not physically doing anything that does not mean it is not still 

bullying. Do not say anything to anyone if you know you meant it in a hurtful way and knew it

 was going to make them feel bad. What do people get from the fact of putting someone else down?

 They may be getting the same kind of abuse at home and now their only way of transferring that hurt

 is to put it off on someone at school. If you are in this situation take it out on a pillow it can definitely

withstand your anger and if not you can always get a new one you can not get a new person once they

 are gone. Then on the other hand there is physical bullying which is taken out physically someone. This

 does not happen as often as physical bullying, but it still happens and will continue to happen if parents

 in this generation do not step up and put a stoop to it. This could even happen in your own home with

 maybe siblings or with your parents. Do not let these things get you done all you need to do is step up

 for yourself and help others with the same problem. One other thing is, do not bully others and be

 courteous to one another and help who you can out and do not put them down. For more check back

 next week for another blog.

Self-Image

Self-image. When you think of self-image you look at yourself and judge what others thinks about you and not what you feel about yourself. Do you go out and think about people looking at you and wondering they're judging you by the way you look? do you ever feel that if you go out t eat people look at you and judge you even thought they don't know you. I've been in your shoes and I know how this feel. Do you look in the mirror and think your ugly because of the way you look? Look in the mirror and think of this beautiful person you want to become, think about the future and ho you can become the person you want to be. Maybe you don't want to use a mirror because you don't want to look at what you feel isn't pretty. The mirror for some can be a masked judgmental person to them. even for smaller or skinnier people they may feel self conscious to look in the mirror and think about them being to small, people may make comments about you being a stick and that may be hurtful. Then you start to worry that your to small and you start being really conscious about your weight. These things all happen in cycles, everyone everywhere has some flaw they feel with their body. It doesn't even matter what gender you are, everyone has this problem. Don't be afraid to talk to someone, find someone you feel comfortable with telling how you are feeling and let them know about any type of verbal bullying. Now on to another matter, SHOPPING. When going shopping you might think that "I hate shopping" even though you love to shop, but you can't ever find anything that fits right with your body type. No one should have to feel that way, I've done this before and sometimes I still do. When you go shopping take someone that you are comfortable with and that is not judgmental. Just go from store to store and find what you and what is going to fit the way you want. If you want find a friend that has the same problem with shopping and knows what you're going through and find a happy medium you both like. I Love to go clothes shopping, but only when I know  that I don't have to try on a million things on. I literally hate trying on clothes after clothes and when you imagine it you want it to fit and then when you actually put it one your like uh, no. When you go out to eat you just want to get something that sounds good at that time and mixes with the mood your in. Have you ever had people stare at you when you walk into a fast food place. Maybe they look at everyone that walks in or they judge what they don't know. When going out to eat my brother has to have fast food, but then I think I don't ever eat this stuff, but I had to come to drive him. Then they look at you and are thinking she probably eats here all the time. If you like what I have so far check back next week for more writing on Teen Issues.