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  • Calling all guys your needed here!!!!!!!?

    Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago

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    ok so I always have guy friends but never a boyfriend. Well I have but it's been a long time since I Had one. So how do I get a guy friend to ask me out? or just any guy for that matter
  • my granda passed away so suddenly!!!!......................?

    Family - 5 hours ago

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    i am very sad now....i feel like .......... i am useless anyone can help me to cheer up before i go berserk...........T.T it happened when my grandpa talked to me.. i ask him he wan durian.. he blinked his eye and.......... left this world..............................................
  • Do you ever listen to girls conversation? What kind of things do you hear?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    I overheard some girls talking when I was walking through the hallway. I know this is sneaky and the fact that I was behind a door is different than sitting down somewhere and listening to people talk to try to talk to them or you just happen to be there. I have no experience with girls.....I never been on a date and I never had a girl that was really a friend...more like acquaintances or short term people I associate myself with I guess i'm just trying to figure them out since I can't seem to get a date
  • How to deal with nights like tonight?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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    Perhaps I've seen one to many horror movies about a teen girl home alone but im genuinly scared right now. Im only 14 but my mom lives an hour away and my dad works nights! He started working nights like during the summer but i was never worried because i was always 1 mile away from my grandparents and my aunt so i knew they could be here in a matter of minutes. either that or on nights he had to work i'd just spend the night with them. But tonight my dad wont be back for hours and my aunt is out of town and my grandparents went out to eat with some long lost relatives ( i was not invited ) so im very paranoid as you can tell. Every noise freaks me out (which there are many because even though its the country i live in a busy neighborhood. how do i deal with this? all my family is either at dinner 30 min away and no where near ready to finish, out of town on buisness or (my moms side of the family) lives 4 states away!! IM ONLY 14!!! I talked to my dad but he wont work days so i have to deal with it but my aunt is a cop and this city isnt exactly safe so please help me!!! How do i get through the night without being scared?
  • am i pretty!?!?!?!?!?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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    seriously, im having a crisis, if i spelled it right....i need well, actually ANYBODYS opinion, if this was a desent pic of me, do u guys think im pretty, if u dont, what can i do to change that!?!?!?!?!
  • Do ladies get turned on by a guy with a deep voice or is that all myth?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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  • How to spice up sex life?

    Other - Family & Relationships - 8 hours ago

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    What are ways to spice up sex life? Im trying to learn and experiment different stuff...suggestions anyone?
  • does anyone else think that they're going to end up alone?

    Singles & Dating - 8 hours ago

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    i know i will.
  • What do I do if my ex-boyfriend is getting over me but I can't get over him?

    Singles & Dating - 8 hours ago

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    I'm 17 and my ex is 19. We were together for one year. He is obviously getting over me as he started college recently at a university and he's added a few girls he goes to school with on Facebook. Me, on the otherhand, I haven't met any guys after him and I'm just always thinking about him so it's hard to get over him. I hate that he's meeting all these girls and I'm not meeting any new guys that I'm interested in. I'm kind of jealous. What should I do?
  • Please read this poem that I made about my dad?

    Family - 8 hours ago

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    Hi, Please read my poem - I know that it's long. However, it would be greatly appreciated i you can tell me what you think of it. (Please not that I am almost eighteen years old) It’s been so long since our family fell apart. I’ll never forget the damage that you punctured into my heart. All the grief, the misery, and the darkness that you put me through and how you never cared what I wanted to do. Now that you have a new family, suddenly now you decide to care. Words are only words that I only hear, but the truth is that you’re never there. You never saw the development of the woman that I became today. You only remember the bad choices that I made. But still, you want me back in your life just to please your new daughter and your wife. I’m sure that you never told them how you made my life burn like fire and how you tried to persuade me of throwing away my true desires. So, I can be daddy’s perfect picture. My heart will always remain pure, unlike yours who destroyed every hope that I had in you. Good luck to you trying to pretend to your baby girl that you’re a perfect dad. Honey, he’ll only tear your heart apart and at the end at of the day he will only see the bad. He’ll leave you crying in the corner full of misery and then he’ll try to convince you that he will change. Dad, it’s always the same. The games you play, the lies that slip out of your mouth and how you smile with that evil grin. You’re such a disappointment in my eyes, and I can count how many times you commuted sin. I’m better off now with out you holding my hand, because you were never there after all. You only watched every time someone punched me into the wall. Saying that I should do better, and you only let me down. I only hoped that one day that you would come around, to tell me that you are proud. We can’t rewrite history, and you can’t fixed the damage in my heart. Because you made me feel worthless, and that I can never end what I started. After everything that you put me through, I’m glad that I never put my faith in you.

Holiday Couch Potato Syndrome

How to motivate your teen to put down the TV remote and the video game controller for at least part of the holiday season.

By Ann Douglas

Q: As soon as my 14-year-old son gets home on the last day of exams, he plops himself in front of the TV and doesn’t move again until school starts up again in January. Whenever I try to get him involved in stuff, he says that everything I suggest is “dumb” or that he’s too tired. Help!

It sounds like your son has been hit with a particularly bad case of Holiday Couch Potato Syndrome. Fortunately, the condition is not contagious and it doesn’t require treatment: it typically disappears on its own around the same time as all of the leftover turkey.

If you’d like to encourage your teen to be a little less Scrooge-like and a little more active over the holidays, give him a project he can really sink his teeth into, like teaching the neighbourhood kids how to skate or leaning how to use the digital camera he got for Christmas—or both! Even something as simple as asking him to assume responsibility for taking the family dog for a walk around the block once a day may be all that’s required to keep him from developing a full-blown case of Holiday Couch Potato Syndrome.

Here’s another tip. Try to figure out if there’s something special your teen would like to do over the holidays. Of course, you may have to play 20 questions to try to figure out what that special activity might be. Agree to play along, in keeping with the spirit of the holiday season. Who knows? You may discover that your teen is eager to check out the new indoor rock-climbing facility in your community or that he’s keen to try snowboarding—two activities that would require that he hop off the couch and relinquish the TV remote. (Well, at least temporarily!)

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