Today is the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School tragedy; listed are a few links I found with information about what has been learned 10 years later and changes that have been made. This article from the Colorado Springs Gazette reports what needs and has been done at some schools to make them safe, [...]
I am not sure if this is really a ritual or another sign of self destructive behaviors. My son was a cutter, but there were incidences of embedding along with the cutting. It may have been intentional or during a tense moment with a pencil or a paperclip in school. There was one incident when [...]
Self destructive behaviors are very common among teens today and are not to be taken lightly. I have written about them before in my blog but they seem to be a reoccurring theme these days. Sometimes they may be the first sign of a problem. Self destructive behaviors are not going to go away without [...]
Teens that harm themselves are performing repetitive injurious behaviors. For the parent or guardian they can be hard to discover and when found very alarming. The self harm activities performed by a teen are usually hidden with clothing, are in areas of the body that are not seen and are done in isolated situations, secretly [...]