PSA for parents of teens - 11 Dangerous Teenage Trends

[kenny]

Three of them are:
Avoiding booze-breath by consuming alcohol via the eyeballs (may lead to blindness).
Inserting alcohol-soaked tampons into those two body openings down there.
Car surfing - standing on a moving car, the faster the car is going the better the bragging rights.

http://www.parentsociety.com/parent...aign=Parents-Beware-11-Dangerous-Teenage-Tren

 

[junebug17]

This is really depressing

 

[sonnyjane]

Forwarded to my mom...

My sister is 12 years younger than me - 17. I am constantly shocked and saddened by the things she and her friends are involved in, things that I absolutely never even knew about at her age. Unfortunately, she couldn't resist temptation and has been in and out of both juvenile hall and a live-in treatment center for the last three years. She is currently in rehab for alcohol and cocaine. Cocaine. My 17 year old sister has a cocaine problem. Ridiculous. And she is among many in her school to be in this treatment program. We are talking upper-middle-class white kids living in a resort community. If it can happen there it can for sure happen anywhere. It's so disappointing to me and the main reason it got so bad is because my mom is just totally naive to it. My mom was worried about me DATING at 17... she has no clue what kids are doing nowadays.

 

[JulieN]

I think adults are always hyping these ridiculous claims of teens running amok. Planking?

Avoiding booze-breath by consuming via eyes? Seriously? How much alcohol would one need to wash ones' eyes in to get drunk? As anyone who has accidentally gotten Clear Care (3% hydrogen peroxide) solution in their eyes knows, that stuff BUUUUURNS. And even if it did work, gee, wouldn't being drunk be a giveaway?

 

[junebug17]

I think adults are always hyping these ridiculous claims of teens running amok. Planking?

Avoiding booze-breath by consuming via eyes? Seriously? How much alcohol would one need to wash ones' eyes in to get drunk? As anyone who has accidentally gotten Clear Care (3% hydrogen peroxide) solution in their eyes knows, that stuff BUUUUURNS. And even if it did work, gee, wouldn't being drunk be a giveaway?

I actually hope you're right JulieN. I hope these kinds of things are exaggerated/not very common. Otherwise it's very disheartening to think of an entire generation so desperate to escape reality.

 

[kenny]

All kids are not the same, obviously.

I think it is useful for a parent to be aware of what's currently going on so he/she can talk to their kids about it.
That "drinking" via the eyeballs can result in blindness is probably not mentioned by the kid's friends who are trying to talk your daughter into joining them.
Knowing it may result in blindness may help the kid say no.

 

[mrs taylor]

All kids are not the same, obviously.

I think it is useful for a parent to be aware of what's currently going on so he/she can talk to their kids about it.
That "drinking" via the eyeballs can result in blindness is probably not mentioned by the kid's friends who are trying to talk your daughter into joining them.
Knowing it may result in blindness may help the kid say no.

I agree.

I had a friend in high school who injected vodka into oranges with her mother's syringes. And she'd happily eat her oranges all day. She was drunk pretty much every day in school, but she wasn't sloppy so she never got caught. Even wasted (on more than booze) she got a perfect score on her SAT's. No one ever stepped in to intervene on her behalf. Or her sister's. One passed away in her 20's, the other is low functioning and moves from shelter to shelter. It's a shame, because both were brilliant.

Kids do stupid stuff. Not all of them, but it's good to be aware of how they can manage to sneak under the radar.

I agree the eyeball thing is over the top, but the others? I've heard of before. They're not that "out there."

 

[ame]

The tampon thing when i first heard about it two years ago was "what in the hell?" I am so not that creative.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I took a look and they missed the fastest growing drug trend in teens...inhalants. The list of things that can get you high is extremely long. Most of it is from the container not the actual substance. It is a quick and short lasting high so kids do it again, and again, and again. Very dangerous. Plus cheap, easy to get, usually lots of products at home. Bath salts are CRAZY scary so I am glad they mentioned those. Bad cases we send them to the hospital to detox (medically induced coma) b/c the patients are a danger to themselves and others. Another they missed is K2 spice. Both Bath salts and K2 are easy to get on the internet or head shops. They are also "newer" drugs so insurance won't always cover treatment.

 

[distracts]

I had a friend in high school who injected vodka into oranges with her mother's syringes. And she'd happily eat her oranges all day. She was drunk pretty much every day in school, but she wasn't sloppy so she never got caught. Even wasted (on more than booze) she got a perfect score on her SAT's. No one ever stepped in to intervene on her behalf. Or her sister's. One passed away in her 20's, the other is low functioning and moves from shelter to shelter. It's a shame, because both were brilliant.

That is WAY more creative than what the kids in my middle school did. They just brought screwdrivers in thermoses and said it was orange juice. Which wasn't entirely a lie, I guess.

And yeah, aside from the eyeball thing (and planking, which doesn't seem worth mentioning), I've heard all these before and have known people who did them. I WAS just recently in college, after all.

 

[madelise]

I had a friend in high school who injected vodka into oranges with her mother's syringes. And she'd happily eat her oranges all day. She was drunk pretty much every day in school, but she wasn't sloppy so she never got caught. Even wasted (on more than booze) she got a perfect score on her SAT's. No one ever stepped in to intervene on her behalf. Or her sister's. One passed away in her 20's, the other is low functioning and moves from shelter to shelter. It's a shame, because both were brilliant.

That is WAY more creative than what the kids in my middle school did. They just brought screwdrivers in thermoses and said it was orange juice. Which wasn't entirely a lie, I guess.

And yeah, aside from the eyeball thing (and planking, which doesn't seem worth mentioning), I've heard all these before and have known people who did them. I WAS just recently in college, after all.

I used to stick apple slices in ziplock bags with Jack Daniels. My friends and I would munch on those as snacks. We also brought clear alcohol in water bottles to spike our cokes. We were usually pretty careful about not getting drunk on campus but I once had too much and got pretty pink and giggly. Luckily, I had theater class after lunch, so I got to slip under the radar.

My exboyfriend's classmate, at a different campus, used to make drunk watermelon and eat that at school.



Meh. I had pretty good grades and I also had a very high SAT score. I'm still doing great. The people I used to hang out with? The one who taught me about JD & apples is now in a very competitive law school and is doing great. Another is a BSN. A few work in the film/theatre industry. One is in her last year of PT school. None of us went to shelters




ETA - I can't stand the taste of most alcohol anymore, and rarely drink. In fact, I never got into that "yay I'm 21" phase. I stopped partying by 19, and didn't care anymore. I preferred work, and waking up early to work. And drinking was never a "gateway drug" for me. I never even touched weed.

 

[madelise]

Three of them are:
Avoiding booze-breath by consuming alcohol via the eyeballs (may lead to blindness).
Inserting alcohol-soaked tampons into those two body openings down there.
Car surfing - standing on a moving car, the faster the car is going the better the bragging rights.

http://www.parentsociety.com/parent...aign=Parents-Beware-11-Dangerous-Teenage-Tren

I actually just recently asked the ER doc I work with if he's had kids come in with alcohol soaked tampons in their cavities, and he laughed. I think it's one of those things where they find a few people who are idiots and then claim all teenagers are idiots. I asked my cousin, who is pretty popular at her high school, if she knew of this practice, and she gave me the nastiest look. I can't imagine anyone would stick alcohol in their eyes, so I flat out think that's just a rumor. I can't even handle soap in my eyes!



And car surfing reminds me of "Ghost Ride the Whip" back when I was in high school. It was part of some lyrics for some "hyphee" Bay Area song that was super popular at the time. Ghost Riding is when you put your car in neutral and let it slowly cruise while you dance somewhere on it? Yeah. I had a friend. Who ran over his own arm. He didn't break anything, but man he looked like an idiot at prom with his brace on.

 

[iheartscience]

I think adults are always hyping these ridiculous claims of teens running amok. Planking?

Avoiding booze-breath by consuming via eyes? Seriously? How much alcohol would one need to wash ones' eyes in to get drunk? As anyone who has accidentally gotten Clear Care (3% hydrogen peroxide) solution in their eyes knows, that stuff BUUUUURNS. And even if it did work, gee, wouldn't being drunk be a giveaway?

Ha ditto! I love this crazy crap. It's so local news ALERT ALERT.

 

[soocool]

DD is in an intensive 5yr Phrama D program. She tells me how stressed out students who are in the program are and what they are doing to cope, so reading this article does not surprise me. She luckily is friends with a group of people who are handling the stress by running. DD was never a runner but said she has never felt stress leave her body as it does when she runs. Fellow students handle stress by taking in large amounts of caffeine (in pill form) and then sleeping pills when they have been up for 72 hours straight studying. They often do reckless things also because of the stress. So again I am not shocked about what I have read.

Teens have more stress today than ever before and need to find a healthy outlet to release the stress instead of schools and parents adding to it constantly.

 

[Christina...]

Actually the tampon thing isn't new. Years go my dad told me about guys on his base in the early 70's who would soak tampons in alcohol to avoid being detected on base while working. So, it's not just kids of today. Although I completely agree that kids are prone to much higher levels of stress now than in the past and are choosing to deal with it in unhealthy ways, but in my area, they are dealing with the same way some adults do, with drugs and alcohol, they just seem to be doing it at much younger ages. It's very sad.

 

[4ever]

All kids are not the same, obviously.

I think it is useful for a parent to be aware of what's currently going on so he/she can talk to their kids about it.
That "drinking" via the eyeballs can result in blindness is probably not mentioned by the kid's friends who are trying to talk your daughter into joining them.
Knowing it may result in blindness may help the kid say no.

I'm all for talking about this stuff with teenagers if they are already somewhat aware of it but I would never talk about it/bring it up otherwise. A lot of the dumb S#*% I tired as a teenager was something I read about in a teen magazine or saw on TV and would never otherwise figured out. I would not be surprised if parents wanted to talk to their kids about horrible stuff like this they have heard all kids are doing and the Teens which this stuff would never have otherwise occurred to might think "soaking candy in vodka to eat at school/pouring vodka in my eyes actually sounds like an awesome idea!"

 

[GliderPoss]

OMG I have NEVER heard of any of the things and I only left school 10 years ago!!!!

WTF Drunk eyeballs? Alcoholic tampons? People are mad.

I was NEVER drunk at school, one glance and my teachers would have known immediately - probably expulsion on the spot (I went to a fairly strict private school) so it was never worth it. Besides what is so fun about being drunk in class?

Gosh how scary being a parent has become...

 

[madelise]

OMG I have NEVER heard of any of the things and I only left school 10 years ago!!!!

WTF Drunk eyeballs? Alcoholic tampons? People are mad.

I was NEVER drunk at school, one glance and my teachers would have known immediately - probably expulsion on the spot (I went to a fairly strict private school) so it was never worth it. Besides what is so fun about being drunk in class?

Gosh how scary being a parent has become...

Nothing "fun" about it. It was a way of acting out, and trying to be "cool" amongst the peers. It was a way to get the giggles, after a whole night of crying about your 4 AP finals. It was a way to be stupid, because, well, we were young

This stuff doesn't make me any more apprehensive about raising a child than reading the news about kidnappers and pedophile rapists. In fact, I'd rather have my kid drunk than attacked. I can deal with sending them to AA if they go overboard, but I can't deal with them having a lifetime of emotional scars and fears brought on by a predator.

 

[kenny]

'BUTT CHUGGING' INCIDENT LEADS TO SEVERE ALCOHOL POISONING OF UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE STUDENT

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/09/26/ac-ridiculist-butt-chugging.cnn

 

[HollyS]

Apparently, the most dangerous teenage trend is Massive Stupidity.

I know I was not that dumb at, say, age 16.

But, then, I've never been overcome by silly dipsh*t behavior that might: 1) hurt or maim me, 2) land me in jail, or 3) cause me extreme embarrasment at some point. It's a little thing I call self-preservation.

(Or, maybe I was just afraid of my mother. She invented tough love )

 

[kenny]

This story reminds me of that saying, "Rectum? Hell, it damned near killed 'em!"

 

[Chewbacca]

Eye shots were a 'thing' when I was in high school. It does not feel good going in, shocking right!

 

[kenny]

Eye shots were a 'thing' when I was in high school. It does not feel good going in, shocking right!

Sorry to ask, but it's relevant to your post.
So, are you 19 or 94?

 

[Chewbacca]

Eye shots were a 'thing' when I was in high school. It does not feel good going in, shocking right!

Sorry to ask, but it's relevant to your post.
So, are you 19 or 94?

Eeek. I'm not sure what your angle is, but I am 19.. plus five years. I'm 24. Perhaps I should rephrase to 'at my highschool'?

To add to the above, I never did successfully do the eye-drink, and was put off ever trying it again! I can't imagine pouring enough in there to the point of drunkness, or much worse, damage! Yikes.

 

[kenny]

No "angle".

... just that your post's meaning depends on your age.
That's all.

 

[Chewbacca]

OK good, my heart rate is going back to normal.

Was afraid of saying I'd said something completely useless in front of ~*KENNY*~ of PS fame.. I haven't been lurking threads in a totally creepy way. AND I definitely didn't read the shrimp thread (and love it) from start to finish.



I love the interwebs.

 

[kenny]

Oh PuhLeeze!
My poop stinks as badly as anyone's here.

 

[Amys Bling]

A kid at the local high school and his friends were car surfing a few years ago. He fell off and cracked his head open- he survived but has a lot of residual brain injury and went through intensive rehabilitative therapies for a very long time.

 

[HollyS]

And then there was the HS kid who stuck his head out of a bus window, what? A month ago?

I guess it never occurred to him that his head might smack into an immovable object like a support column on an underpass. I wonder how much booze or drugs it took to make him momentarily (and permanently) stupid? Or did he have a death wish? Or was he merely that big a doofus without any substance abuse?

How sad for his parents to know that his was a completely preventable death. If brains had merely been used . . .

 

[Amys Bling]

And then there was the HS kid who stuck his head out of a bus window, what? A month ago?

I guess it never occurred to him that his head might smack into an immovable object like a support column on an underpass. I wonder how much booze or drugs it took to make him momentarily (and permanently) stupid? Or did he have a death wish? Or was he merely that big a doofus without any substance abuse?

How sad for his parents to know that his was a completely preventable death. If brains had merely been used . . .

I was at the ER if that hospital when then brought him in with my sister terrible scene. People don't think before they act unfortunately...