Teen Suicide

[Dennis H]

Not a teen, but a devastating blow to the Twitter community.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...29-days-after-reported-missing-200317397.html

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Xp29h]

Been an issue for some time. A steady increase. I’ve been looking at several articles I’ve been able to find. We’ve had a few students commit suicide in the last 5-6 years. Tragic each and every one of them.

This may stir some **** but many of the article mention the early 2000’s as the start of the increase. They also mention that parents aren’t doing the job they once did(obviously) and the Government “No child left behind” from 2001. I don’t know about other schools but the pressure to succeed in my school is enormous! Does it have to do with NCLB act? Don’t really know but certainly an unmistakable fact! Teen suicide has risen 30-50% from 2000....interesting thought..

I’m certainly not blaming any 1 thing! There are many (social media) but altogether... I bet they are making a difference and why numbers are rising and probably will continue! Very sad!

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-suicide-rate-increased-since-2000-2018-6

 

[roadrunner69440]

Personally, I think a lot of you guys are right, kids are coddled and not brought up to work hard and take care of themselves. I admit I didn’t let my kids go without too often. Most of us want our kids to have it better than we had and I think technology made it too easy. That being said I read an article about how we are in the Information Age and how too many people( mostly Americans) are having information overload and it makes it tough and more stressful to process it all.

 

[demonram]

The only experience I’ve had with other kids as far as relationships with their parents was cub and Boy Scouts. We had as many as 21 Boy Scouts in our troop in a town of about 4000 +-. I didn’t live there, I went with my son who lived with his mother. It was 40 miles away. I went to every meeting and as many trips as I could, pulling the trailer and a truckload of kids in the quad cab. We had 3 great leaders and 3 of us helped as much as we could. We always encouraged and tried everything we could to get the other parents involved to pretty much deaf ears for the most part. We did everything we could for the troop, quite a few eagles, my son included. Unfortunately, we also felt we were the parents baby sitters. Wouldn’t change a thing! We knew why we did it and were proud to do it! Parents better wake up, it’s getting harder every year!

 

[Slap Stick]

Who wants to bet this kid was on some kind of prescribed psych meds?

 

[eldubb440]

Who wants to bet this kid was on some kind of prescribed psych meds?

give that man a cigar

 

[Richard Cranium]

Social media and the interwebs are just too much for many youngsters to handle.

 

[Budnicks]

Social media and the interwebs are just too much for many youngsters to handle.

especially when you combine that with, peer pressure or
bullying, cyber ********, keyboard commandos (we all know a few)
& especially lack of parental guidance, #1

lots of single parent households with little to NO good male influences
satellite parenting, parent never involved, too damn busy
lack of interest on what their kids are watching & seeing on the -www-

ignored in every aspects of their lives,
remember the "it takes the community raise the kids"
instead of the real parents, taking care of them, teaching them right from wrong

Constantly from morning tell night, them &/or parents texting or searching -www-
on fakebook or twatter or snatchchat or whathehellever.com etc.,
faces buried in their god damn cell phones constantly,
addicted to games &/or millions of them on antidepressants
they don't go out & play work off the boredom (like most in our gen. did)

They don't interact with real humans on a 1 to 1 bases,
hardly ever, everything is electronic, even if in the same damn room

or the other extreme spoil the **** out of them
instead of being an actual parent, they will respect you more, from guidance
not as their best friend, that can come when they are an adult
young minds need attention & molding, actual parenting skills

 

[Wojo68]

especially when you combine that with, peer pressure or
bullying, cyber ********, keyboard commandos (we all know a few)
& especially lack of parental guidance, #1

lots of single parent households with little to NO good male influences
satellite parenting, parent never involved, too damn busy
lack of interest on what their kids are watching & seeing on the -www-

ignored in every aspects of their lives,
remember the "it takes the community raise the kids"
instead of the real parents, taking care of them, teaching them right from wrong

Constantly from morning tell night, them &/or parents texting or searching -www-
on fakebook or twatter or snatchchat or whathehellever.com etc.,
faces buried in their god damn cell phones constantly,
addicted to games &/or millions of them on antidepressants
they don't go out & play work off the boredom (like most in our gen. did)

They don't interact with real humans on a 1 to 1 bases,
hardly ever, everything is electronic, even if in the same damn room

or the other extreme spoil the **** out of them
instead of being an actual parent, they will respect you more, from guidance
not as their best friend, that can come when they are an adult
young minds need attention & molding, actual parenting skills

Spot on, right there.

 

[Roger63]

I was taught that loosing is a big part of winning. Failure is part of success. Parents that dont let their kids fail are failing as parents.