Assemble An E-Scrapbook Of Teen Health Articles For Your Teen!
Despite the wealth of available teen health articles, it’s most often parents who read them and try to pass them on to their teenager. Teens, although they want answers, think it’s a geeky waste of time. As a parent, you know that while your teen may want the answers to common teen health problems, they aren’t going to make a serious effort to seek out the answers. Frustrating, eh? Despite their resistance to your geeky influence, with just a little effort, you can make a sort of e-scrapbook, to get them interested and informed. They’ll take it from there.
Teens are plagued with acne and raging hormones. However, that same teen has better ways to spend their time than ferreting out teen health articles. Yes, they want to know how to have perfect skin, but when they go looking, all it takes is one uninformative article to ‘prove’ it’s a waste of time.
To convey good information, while not appearing to force teen health articles down their throat, you’ve got to be discreet.
Teen privacy usually becomes a big issue around the time they hit 14. There are many topics which they don’t even want you to know they’re curious about, for reasons of feeling embarrassed or geeky. You can get around this with your mini e-book of teen health articles, mixed in with other categories of interest to teens.
For example, sections of articles on homework resources for teen students and music search engines helps you to integrate ‘non-privacy issue’ information with other, more sensitive issues such as sex education and street drugs. This gives your e-book a more innocent flavor, defusing the privacy aspects. You know there’s plenty they need to know, but may not be willing to talk about, except with their friends.
When you go searching, make sure you find the best teen health articles, ones that cut to the chase with news they can use. Let them decide from there. You may never know for sure, but they may read the whole e-book. Categorize by subject, alphabetically, and always include the url of the resource. Here are some suggested categories and topics:
1.Beauty and style: Hair, makeup, nails, skin problems (with nutrition info), vintage and trendy fashion.
2.College: SAT and ACT testing, choosing a college.
3.Entertainment and music: events, tickets online
4.Home economics: balancing a checkbook, credit cards, cost of living, cars and insurance.
5.Homework resources: math, grammar, history, science and any special interests.
6.Socializing: forums, message boards, pen pals, dating, drugs, STDs, peer pressure, predators
Customize your teen ebook with a well-rounded topic list. You may find your teen coming to talk to you about some of these previously out-of-bounds subjects. Encourage them to continue the work, adding to their collection of great teen health articles. A little subterfuge is sometimes necessary to a teen’s education!
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