Dangerous Teenage Trends Parents should know about

     

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1. Planking

 The activity involves lying face-down on any surface. Once in position, the participant’s friends take a picture and share it on the web, often escalating to dangerous places rooftops, cars, stairs, possibly ending in a severe injury.   (keep an eye your childs friends and their social media photos looking for "plank" pics)

2. Vodka Eyeballing

Teenagers are quick to find new ways to consume alcohol without leaving the obvious smell of booze on their breath. This new trend involves pouring vodka directly into the eye, passing through the mucous membrane and entering the bloodstream through the veins around the eyeball. The result is a quick buzz. If done often, this activity can burn or scar the cornea, and in some extreme cases cause blindness.  (watch vodka levels and severly red eyes)

 3  Choking game

 This game creates a momentary high parallel to that caused by the use of certain drugs.  (hand or other marks around your childs neck line or area)

4. Vodka Gummy Bears

News broke recently about YouTube videos that showed how to infuse candy with alcohol. Kids now have access to a step-by-step tutorial on how to soak gummy bears in vodka and consume them in plain view just about anywhere.  (vodka levels and taste candy or smell in kids bag, room, laundry)

 5. Smoking Smarties

 Also fueled by internet tutorials, smoking smarties involve crushing the candy until it is in powder form. Once fully dissolved, an opening is made on the side of the package to allow puffing the sugar powder and exhaling it like cigarette smoke. Inhaling the sugar powder from the smarties candies can cause infections, chronic coughing,  (look for crushed candy in laundry, room, floor, or burned candy packages in trash)

 6. Tampon Drunkenness

A tampon is soaked in alcohol and then inserted in a girl’s vagina or a boy’s rectum.  (you're on your own)

 7. Distilling Hand Sanitizer

This inexpensive and very accessible product is easy for kids to get their hands on. Salt is used to separate the high quantities of alcohol found in hand sanitizer, which is then consumed.  (purchase foaming hand sanitizer)

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 8. Car Surfing

 Here’s how it works: teenagers climb on top of a car, hold onto the roof, and pretend to surf while the driver hits the pedal and drives. (watch social media for pics, stories, or chat mails etc)

 9. Purple Drink


This drink has become famous because of various rap artists who drink it in videos. Even NFL players have gotten in on the act. The drink includes a mixture of Sprite, Jolly Ranchers, and codeine cough syrup. It is highly toxic and can cause hallucinations, ( make sure items used are not available or found in your house)

 10. ChatRoulette.com

This website allows the user to anonymously chat online with anyone without the use of security blocks or filters.  (watch computer history for visits to this site, place this site on parental watch lists)

 11. Bath Salts 


Commonly referred to as “Purple Wave” and “Bliss,” this drug contains high levels of mephedrone, methylone, and MDPV, three drugs that cause hallucinations when smoked, snorted, or injected. (stop taking relaxing therapeutic hot baths with salts from Victoria's Secret because idiots found a new way to get High)

to a lesser extent, "face book chat", "IM" with Strangers, Unprotected Sex,

 Keep your kids active in healthy ways, sports, outside activities, bring them to church, love them, tell them you love them...show them you love them... talk to them about the good and bad from your life, and how you would do some things differntly