7 Summer Books All the Cool Kids Are Reading

posted by Lindsay Mannering 16 hours ago in Teen

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Whether you have a voracious reader at home or someone who'd rather eat glass than pick up a book, summer reading is essential for every high school student. Not only does it keep their brains from rotting, but it should also teach them the joys of a good book. Without deadlines or pop quizzes, reading can actually be fun!

And this list of 7 books is perfect for the off-season -- not too heavy, not too light, this collection of essays, novels, and memoirs is comprised of some of the most entertaining stories to come out of the last six decades.

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Teacher Who Let Student Pierce Her Ears During Class Deserves Biggest Eye Roll Ever

posted by Lindsay Mannering 16 hours ago in Teen

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It'd be understandable if it happened at summer camp, or even at a sleepover, but when your teen comes home from school with a belly-button ring, and you find out the teacher supervised the whole thing, you gotta ask questions. It happened at a classroom at Northern High in Pennsylvania. Ninth grade teacher April Beard let one of her eighth period students pierce her cartilage, then let that student pierce another's navel.

Nice.

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Kids Watch Their Dad's Suicide on YouTube

posted by Jeanne Sager 21 hours ago in Teen

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Another day, another frivolous lawsuit. Only the mom suing the Fox News Channel for airing footage of her husband's suicide that upset her children doesn't come across as your average money-hungry American. She sounds like a woman who is having a rough time, a mom who is protecting her kids.

Sadly, suing a TV news channel is too little, too late. Because JoDon Romero's kids didn't see his suicide on a television at all.

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Principal Who Plans to Hire Adult Film Star to Teach Sex-Ed Is Brilliant

posted by Ericka Sóuter Monday at 5:50 PM in Teen

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Talk about a progressive teaching plan. A high school principal at a private school in England wants porn stars to teach sex education to students. This will initially freak out any parent -- myself included. It's outrageous, to be sure, but brilliant too. Here's why.

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15 Over-the-Top Rules for Kids From the 'Strictest Parents Ever'

posted by Jeanne Sager Monday at 3:37 PM in Teen

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I have a confession to make: sometimes my daughter tells me that I'm the strictest parent EVER, and I laugh. Not in her face, but later, along with my husband who shakes his head and usually makes some comment about how lucky she really is.

I am not the most strict parent out there. But there's no use telling my kid that. There's really no use telling ANY kid that their parents are not the big meanies they think they are.

But as my kid gets older, I'm more than happy to collect proof that it could be a heckuva lot worse out there for her. Take the recent list of "rules" teenagers on Reddit say are enforced in their homes. They go from the normal to the absolutely absurd ... and beyond!

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Teen Rides 50,000-Pound Whale Shark While Family Eggs Him On (VIDEO)

posted by Emily Abbate Monday at 11:40 AM in Teen

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There are some things a parent should never advise their kids to do. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say catching a ride on a 30-foot whale shark is one of 'em. Chris Kreis, 19, was on vacation with his family in the Gulf of Mexico last week when they spotted a 50,000-pound whale shark swimming past their boat. Without hesitation, the teen casually jumped into the ocean, reached for the shark's dorsal fin, and went for a nine-second joyride on the shark's back. The craziest part? All of this was caught on video.

Check it out, here:

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6 Invaluable Lessons My Dad Taught Me (VIDEO)

posted by Emily Abbate Friday at 10:12 AM in Teen

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Every year on Father's Day, we all stop for one day to thank our Dad for everything he's done for us. For many of us, that's a wholllleeee lot. Sure, dads everywhere are great at grilling and fantastic at meandering through home improvement stores in record time, but most importantly, dads are great teachers. In honor of the holiday, I decided to take a little time to reflect on a few of the things my awesome dad has taught me.

Check out 6 things I'm thankful my dad taught me on today's Daily Stir:

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Dad Shoots at Teen Daughter's Boyfriend When He Catches Them Fooling Around

posted by Lindsay Mannering Thursday at 5:43 PM in Teen

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There's probably not one parent in America who can't relate to 50-year-old Jamshid Ebrahimi. When he walked in the door of his Hillsboro, Oregon home to find his 14-year-old daughter partially clothed with a teenage boy, he kind of lost his mind. The enraged father grabbed a handgun and fired it into the floor. As the teenage boy fled, he fired another round into the air outside as the kid hauled it over a fence.

Now, the protective dad is under three years probation for reckless gun use. But if you ask him, he might say his crime was worth the punishment.

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Why Every Mom Should Tell Off Guys Who Check Out Her Teenage Daughter

posted by Jeanne Sager Thursday at 3:48 PM in Teen

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The older my daughter gets, the more uncomfortable I become with the temperature of the conversation over what teenage girls are wearing. Yes, I want my daughter to show a little class with the clothes she chooses. No, I don't want her to feel that it's OK for men to leer at her ... no matter what she's wearing.

Recently I've come to realize that a part of raising a girl in America is teaching her that she doesn't have to take inappropriate overtures from men. And the only way to do that is to tell the men to take a hike.

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12-Year-Olds Handcuffed & Arrested for Being Tardy for School

posted by Ericka Sóuter June 12 at 5:35 PM in Teen

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When you see a teen handcuffed and headed to the police station, your mind naturally begins to swirl with all the crimes he could have possibly committed. Did he steal? Beat someone up? Vandalize something? It's doubtful that you imagined he was headed to a cell for being tardy for school. But that is exactly what is happening to kids in Texas. Teens are being arrested for truancy.