Surrounding Yourself with People Who Care
As a teen with anxiety, it is really important for me to surround myself with friends that care for me. Now, I’m not talking about spoon feeding you baby food or helping you cross the street. I’m talking about friends that will check up on you.
Having friends that will … Read More
Staying Active during Covid-19
By: Jana K, age 13
Thanks to the Coronavirus lockdown, you can’t go out anywhere to exercise like you used to! Don’t fret! We don’t have to do anything drastic! 🙂 Here is a list of things to do to keep yourself from getting bored! With this list, you might … Read More
Risk & Protective Factors
by: Leo Preston, Teen CHARGE Production Manager
When it comes to parenting, a goal you may have for your child is for them to live a holistic healthy life (social, emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, and vocational/recreational), so that they may become a confident, independent adult. Although this may be the … Read More
AHHHHH! Stress!
Parents, family, relationships, athletics, performances, speeches, exams, world/local news, politics, graduation, college, this weekend, appearances, hair, likes/follows on social media, and other such things consume the mind which, in turn, applies pressure to our thoughts and emotions. This pressure can also be known as stress. Due to the fact … Read More
My Brother has Autism
Throughout all of my life, I have witnessed my older brother reach milestones that I would have never thought he could reach. When we were children, whenever he spoke he could never use his own words to describe how he felt. He could “script”, mimic scenes verbatim from movies, television … Read More