Teens are SNORTING entire condoms up their nose and out their mouth in the latest [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 2, 2018 | Megan Sheets

[C19fan]

Teens are snorting condoms for the latest viral social media challenge, health officials warn.

The 'Condom Challenge' involves inhaling an unwrapped condom through one's nostril and pulling it out of the throat through the mouth.

The challenge has been around for several years but is reportedly making a comeback on the heels of the Tide Pod Challenge that made headlines earlier this year.

Experts warn that snorting condoms not only poses a serious choking risk but could also lead to infection.

[Jamestown1630]

Sometimes, no matter how hard parents try, kids turn out poorly. Parents can’t control everything, and sometimes, for reasons we don’t yet understand, things go wrong despite every attempt to raise a respectful, wise, loving child.

But I think that a great many problems that we have with young people today comes down to poor or ignorant parenting.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

Yes it is sad, I have seen it happen in my own family. My cousin’s children were raised with every advantage and yet never could stay out of trouble. They eventually straightened out but not before causing their mother and father a great deal of heartache.

[jetson]

It's like something takes over their bodies.

[Jamestown1630]

I think that when good parents do their best and the kids still have problems, you just have to assume that things might have been a lot worse without the good parenting.

And no matter how wayward a child might be in youth, that early training sticks and comes back to them later.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

There are so many negative things that influence kids these days that I sometimes feel very sorry for both children and parents.

Who would think with so many modern conveniences and advanced technology that life would be more difficult than ever?

[Jamestown1630]

I think that in many ways, technology isn’t so much ‘progress’, but a trading-off.

We have antibiotics and light-bulbs and amazing communication systems now; but many of us have lost family life and community. We can kill one another in wars now, with greater efficiency and in greater numbers; and our ‘communications’ technology can be used against us by interests that don’t have OUR real interests at heart.

It’s always a trade-off; and we have to evolve spiritually in order to make it more ‘good’ than ‘bad’.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

That’s interesting, a trade off? Yes I guess it is, but in my opinion there is something missing. I have concluded that what is missing is imagination. Whatever the youth of today imagine they already have. Is that a blessing or a curse?

I read of so many remakes of movies and reboots of TV shows and wonder can’t this generation think of anything new? Where is the creativity and imagination of this new generation and without it what is their future?

I agree that we have lost community, my goodness, I live in a duplex and share a wall with a woman who I have never met nor seen. Such a situation would have been unheard of when I was growing up, everyone met at church or at the general store, or the post office/stationary/drug store. I am glad I grew up when I did.

[Jamestown1630]

I’m glad that I grew up when I did, too; but I know younger people who think that the 1980s were the ‘best of times’; and my Grandmother thought that culture had seriously devolved by the time I came along :-)

It’s all relative.

There’s ‘nothing new under the Sun’. Everything that humans have created has been more or less derivative; and what you can create depends a great deal upon the background from which you can draw.

Young people are no longer offered a broad - much less a ‘Classical’ - education; so the field from which their creativity can draw has become more narrow with regard to arts and letters, which have spoken to and referenced the Spiritual; and more saturated by materialist science/technology, with each recent generation.

I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with technological progress - I think God intended us to improve materially, as well as spiritually. But I’m waiting for the generation which realizes the imbalance, and rebels against this state of affairs.

The pendulum always swings.