TRAITS THAT YOUR CHILD MAYBE A TEENAGER (I AM BOBBEE BEE "THE HATER" BEWARE BEWARE

According to Joesph Tooley, Ph.D, Psychologist Marriage & Family Therapist and Life Coach there are 11 traits that your child maybe becoming a teenager. Here is a brakedown of those traits so parents beware.

1. Highly Influenced by Peer Pressure

Adolescents may need to reject your standards for the standards of their friends or to be down with the "IN CROWD" This includes wanting a tattoo, getting ear piercings, Mohawk haircuts, skinny jeans, smoking, drinking, or joining gangs.

2. DEVELOPS UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIPS

Teenagers change friends constantly. They may have a different boyfriend or girlfriend every other week. Best friends become enemies. "I don't like her anymore because she didn't speak to me yesterday."

3.TEENAGERS CAN BE CRUEL

Children may tease and pick on one another. Name-calling is notorious in school. Words like "You are gay or " "HOMO" and stupid are popular verbal insults on the playground these days. In the classroom and in the hallways terms like nerd and retard are still being used. The old cliche' "sticks and stones" may brake my bones but words will never hurt me..is simply not true.

4.COMMUNICATION BECOMES A PROBLEMS.

Your Teenager may begin to speak in One words sentence.

Parent: How was school today?

Teenager:FINE

Parent: What did you learn today?

Teenager: NOTHING

5. ISOLATION FROM OTHERS.

Your teenager would rather be alone in his room than participate in family activities. They would rather hang with their "homeboys"play on the PS2 for hours and hours, talking on the telephone or sitting at the computer rather than hang with their old-fashion parents. The classic hip-hop song by Will Smith entitled "Parents Don't Understand" explains how teenagers feel. Take a listen to the remix verison featuring Lil Romeo.

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6.TIME ALONE BECOMES SUPER IMPORTANT

7.KNOW-IT-ALL ATTITUDE

Your teenager will reject your good advice and adopt the attitude that "I already know that...Duh"


8.MOOD SWINGS BECOME EXTREME

Happy one minute; sad the next! It's the life of every teenage girl. She loves me; she hates me.

9. BODY IMAGE BECOME EXTREME

As their bodies change, your children will become self-conscious and embarrassed about the slightest flaw. Pimples, blemishes, freckles, hairstyles, weight and braces. Girls may ask why they can't wear make-up. They will say "I can't go out looking like this

10. RESULTS OF ACTIONS ARE NOT CONSIDERED

Your teen will act in the "here and now" without considering the long-term results of their behavior...

11. INDEPENDENCE IS ALL IMPORTANT

Teenagers feel that they have a right to do everything. They feel highly insulted when they have to ask permission to do anything

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BOBBEE BEE IS DOWN WITH OBAMA

by President Barack Hussein Obama

And no matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy. We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that - if you quit on school - you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.
Now I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.

I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.
So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home - that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.

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