teenagers
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Did you know that Gen Z is three times more likely to use YouTube than TikTok? As ever, it is my solemn duty to dismiss some common misconceptions. And no, I’m not here to rag on TikTok – that damn app gets far too many of my hours (who knew red panda feeding live streams…
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Sex education is offered in many schools, but don’t count on classroom instruction alone. Sex education needs to happen at home too. Here’s help talking to your teen about sex. Sex education basics may be covered in health class. But teens might not hear — or understand — everything they need to know to make…
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Teenagers often dream of driving super cars, but the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention say at least six teenagers aged between 16 and 19 die from car accidents every day. This disturbing figure presents a big challenge for parents planning to gift their boy or girl a new set of wheels. So, experts suggest…
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For Mary Asigi, a 17-year-old pupil at Damascus primary school in the slums of Dandora on the outskirts of Nairobi, it is usual to miss a few days of school each month because she has no sanitary towels to use when she has her period. “This affects my performance in class,” she says. Like many…
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Three male teenagers are being investigated by the police for spitting on the lift buttons in a lift at Rumbia LRT station. The incident, which came to light on Thursday (Feb 20) after SBS Transit posted a photo on Facebook of the lift buttons covered in spittle, had sparked condemnation coming amid the coronavirus outbreak.…
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The number of suicides in Japan in the first 11 months of 2018 dropped 3.4 percent from a year earlier to 20,598, down for the ninth year and the lowest in 37 years, preliminary data released by the National Police Agency showed on Friday. The number of suicides per 100,000 people fell to 16.3,…
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Everyone knows how often people suffer dating violence, rape or sexual molestation and this highlights the need for improved human rights protection in every 21st century society. A responsive, well-equipped and efficient governmental systems such as the police, policymakers and courts, including advocacy groups, are therefore required to curb the menacing impact from rapists,…
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Two teenagers have been arrested for placing a crying baby in her mother’s refrigerator and shutting the door for fun. The young girls recorded their spine-chilling act on video and uploaded it online without realizing the authorities could identify them. Image shows the police office in Danver (Credit: Matt Stones). According to a report from…
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The popular choking game has always been there but parents, guardians and teachers have been warned to take note that the dangerous game is making a fast return among kids everywhere around the world. Sample picture of how the choking game is played. As a dad or mom, you may not know about this but I can…
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A middle school student in one of China’s secondary schools went a bit too far in expressing her love for another teenager who doesn’t want any of it. She chose an alarming method of professing love by cutting a finger and using the dripping blood to write a love letter on the floor for the…
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Many parents in northern China aren’t taking it lightly after students numbering 12 were expelled from the university for violating rules banning use of phones during classes, a newspaper reported.
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