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Dieting: From the Teen’s View (Part 1)

December 14th, 2011 Posted by Jacob P. | Eating, Sports, Teen Perspective
I don't think it is necessary for most kids to arbitrarily diet.  Dieting can be unhealthy and stressful for kids and teens.  There are situations where dieting is an important step to take, for one reason or another.  So, I thought I would write about what I think about dieting for kids and teens.

I don't think dieting is a necessary step for most scenarios.  There are many situations where it is immediately thought of as the primary cure for obesity or other unhealthy conditions.  Here are the only two scenarios where I think it should be considered immediately.

  • Extreme obesity. 
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Sports Injuries

October 21st, 2011 Posted by Jacob P. | Sports, Teen Perspective, Teens
As most of the people who read my articles presumably know, I am a high school athlete.  Currently, I am in the middle of football season.  In the winter, I wrestle and in the spring I run track.  This means that I am constantly seeing fellow athletes get hurt and often getting hurt myself.  Just this weekend, two kids from my team twisted their ankles and one kid from my team hurt his knee.  So, I thought I would share my insight on how parents should handle their high school athlete's injuries.

  • Do not immediately go to the doctor.  I
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Can Your Kid Be a College Athlete?

July 6th, 2011 Posted by Louise | College, Sports, Teen Perspective
Over a year ago, I wrote about getting into college with the help of sports. At that point, I had no idea what college athletics would be like, if I would fit in or end up being the slowest on the team and absolutely massacred by the training. In high school, I had played volleyball, played basketball, and run middle distance (400m and 800m) in track. I was decent, but not a star.

Now, here I am, summer after my freshman year, training for another season of Varsity cross country, with a year of college and college athletics under
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Trying New Things : From A Teen’s Perspective

June 23rd, 2011 Posted by Sam P. | Adolescence, Behavior, Emotions, Hobbies, Learning, Safety, Sports, Teen Perspective, Teens
I know that trying new things can be very hard, especially when you are in front of a whole group of people.  I just went rollerblading on Wednesday and had never gone before.  I was very nervous, especially because it was a school field trip.

I talked with my friends and quite a few of them had never done it before.  We all went on the rollerblading rink together holding hands so that if one of us fell, we would all fall.  After a couple of laps we hadn't fallen yet so we started to break apart; once I was
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Kid’s Sports: Teen Perspective

April 14th, 2011 Posted by Louise | Sports, Teen Perspective
I was recently reminiscing about the sports I was involved in as a younger kid. I only realized how many there were after formally writing out the list: dance (tap and ballet), soccer, gymnastics, running, skiing, swimming, basketball, softball, and volleyball. It may sound like I was all over the place, or picky, as if couldn’t find the one sport I liked, but I actually participated and enjoyed each of these sports for anywhere from three to eight years; the shifts between sports simply came with age and opportunities to try other things.

I started with dance when I was
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