Today's teenagers have to deal with craven adults who foist a garbage culture on them and the parents who permit it, churches that embrace "alternative" lifestyles, schools whose history curricula offer no hope for the future, denigrate America, and honor victimization status, reading curricula that doesn't teach children to read (whole language)and garbage-pail book lists (none of the good, the beautiful, and the true, just a lot of poorly written junk), math curricula that just confuses students and parents alike, zero-tolerance policies promulgated by lazy, amoral school officials who don't care if they destroy a kid's life forever, divorce, illegitimacy, drug use (guess who used drugs first -- parents or their kids?), materialism, etc., etc., etc.
Today's kids would be better off if they had to work the land, deal with marauders, read a book by candlelight, cook in a pot over a fire, chop wood, plant a garden. That's healthy stress. What they are going through today isn't even remotely healthy and neither is the stress, which manifests itself in very strange ways, cutting for example.
UNREAL! I imagine these "kids" share especially one thing in common, a complete lack of discipline in their lives.
There are so few problems to deal with today they have to make up problems, they make up diseases.
How about, " Hey don't be stupid! Cut yourself again and I'll no longer pay for your cell phone, car insurance, clothes, outings". Oh, such forceful talk and action might cause damage to their fragile pyschie.
Gotta go now, time to hit myself in the head with this stick I have, I've been trying to stop.
Cheers,
CSG