I decided to rerun this column from Feb. 13, 2020, for three reasons. It echoes sentiment I continue to hear from young people, the peer educator response was honest, and it is especially poignant to me since it ran about a month before the pandemic. Q. I hate Valentine鈥檚 Day. I once loved ...
Responses to my Jan. 29 column on snow days: Q. As a parent, I reacted to your column about remote snow days much like the teen who wrote to you. When I was a teen, we did have days off for snow, but they weren鈥檛 like today. My brother and I would wake up to listen to the radio and then go ...
Q.: I hate snow days. Wait a minute, let me explain. I hate the kind of snow days we have now. I don鈥檛 care if you call them remote learning or flexible instruction days or remote instruction days, they are horrible! I鈥檓 the kind of student who needs to be in the same room with my teachers. ...
Q. I noticed that most of your columns deal with problems teens bring to you. I thought it might be refreshing and bring you a smile to know I鈥檓 doing very well. I just finished my fifth college semester. I have a healthy relationship (you taught me to hold out for that), I get along with my ...
Q. You might think this isn鈥檛 from a teen, but I really am 16. And my mom didn鈥檛 tell me to ask you! I think I鈥檓 spending too much time online. I feel like it鈥檚 a rabbit hole I sink into, going from one You Tube video to Tik Tok to another You Tube video to Insta and then I start all ...
I love traditions. One of my favorites is collecting New Year鈥檚 Resolutions from teens! This is my 21st year asking this question. First, a quick story. In the early 2000s, our Outreach ran a program called Ambassador for Respect over several years. Each district participated in an essay ...
