re: Increasing Levels of Teen Suicide

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It's hard being a teen.

That's why i said earlier that parents and school administrators need to be in tune with students.

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This means absolutely nothing. Hormones are hard. Wahh. Human history called, and wants to know why 15 year olds tried and often succeeded in finding ways to enlist in wars. What does "be in tune with the students" mean in practice?

Just understand them more? Feed them more rope? No, they're ignorant, which is precisely why they can't vote,or get tattoos until 18, and why they aren't supposed to drive until they're at least 16.

Of course they're not fully formed. That takes until the mid-20s for "people who were assigned XY chromosomes at conception." You didn't spend long enough talking to your great-grandparents (I'm guessing your age) about the depression, and shite like why I got a sweater and a jar of peanut butter for Christmas after I'd taken a bus halfway across the country from my grandparents.

When people are not fully formed, it's our duty, as the literal adults in the room, to lead them, and not just throw up our hands and give up. Number one job in any species is to ensure survival of our offspring.

As I posted, with references, in page one of this thread, social media is at the root. Bullies existed in 1955. It's not hard being a teen, they get phones given to them in junior high that cost more than everything I had to my name (inflation adjusted) as a senior in college. Stop making excuses and take ownership (I'm not attacking OP or the other unfortunate acquaintances of recent events, just you.)

Strict enforcement. LOL. Just a little bit of weed when you're 12 is fine, just four hours a day on TikTok are fine, it'll all be fine. Explain to me your theory on speeding tickets in Louisiana. I'm sure it's consistent reasoning.

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Make God the center of your life.

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That really is what’s truly missing. It’s the hole in ourselves that we try and fill with everything but God and it is never filled, leaving us empty and always wanting, because nothing else really ever fills that void as it was meant for Him from our very creation as a human being when we were born.

get kids off the screen is biggest thing. they need to feel like home is a place to get away from the pressures of school and society. Also when it comes to screen time, have your kid leave the devices in living room away from them at night, starting at 9, no later. this gives them time to have proper sleep hygeine and to get a full 8 hours of sleep. This shite sounds trivial but it isnt.

if you kid plays sports at high level, also understand they dont need to be coached at home. they need a place to escape that. i push hard training, but there are times kids just need to be kids. let them play with the neighborhood kids and go ride bikes, go fishing etc


teach your kid gun safety also even if you dont have them in the home. its important.


#1 thing though besides screentime is get your kid exercising. If he is a boy, get them into lifting weights, even if you were not into it. Its important from brain function standpoint to exercise and being strong and having a proper body image is big for teens. This goes for girls too, get them into lifting, its fricking important, way more than you think.

no surprise that as obesity rates rise in teens, the suicide rates rise too. same goes for screen time. I know its coorlation but there are plenty of studies that show what these things do to the developing brain.

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It’s rocked Baton Rouge quite a bit over the last few months. It’s crazy to think that kids view it as a way out. The influence of social media is 1000% at fault for this

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or is it parents not actually talking to their kids and realizing what is really going on in their lives.

Cell phones and social media are in my opinion the main factors. Kids are ruthless to each other when they don't have to say things to the other kids'faces. If they deal with a mean kid at school the kid is also being mean to them on social media at home. There's no break. Now instead of breaking up fights or stopping bullying other kids just want to film it.

I talk to my students all the time about being nice to each other. Being mean actually takes effort, and all it does is make both people feel bad.

Now you've got kids posting emotions; videos of them crying and all that to get sympathy from their online fake friends. It's very creepy and weird.

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When people are not fully formed, it's our duty, as the literal adults in the room, to lead them, and not just throw up our hands and give up. Number one job in any species is to ensure survival of our offspring.

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One of my best friends had a son who shot himeself when his parents were in the home.

Both parents had to reconstruct what happened because they weren't involved enough to know. The kid was in his room most of the time and they didn't know if it was drugs or a girl. It was a girl. A mundane teen breakup resulted in tragedy.

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Yeah, I was kinda shocked by this one, seemed like he had it pretty together too.

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I didn't know the kid or family but he seemed to be well involved in school and pretty smart (from what my daughter said). She runs in a different circle than he did but it still effects everyone. It did seem like a quick decision for him when he did it and he was actually in surgery when he passed.

I am so glad my kid is gonna be a busy bee this summer. Less time on the damn phone and that's a good thing. You can tell when she hasn't been glued to the phone. Her mood changes and she is more talkative. I get she is a teen and hanging with her parents isn't cool.

1) social media
2) immature parents who treat their kids like friends
3) consistent outside messaging of negativity and instability in the world