Tanning Dangers

I know that summer time is coming soon and lots of you girls are thinking about how pale winter has left their skin. But here's my advice for the day, "don't use tanning beds!" First off, they're extremely expensive; it would take more than your summer job to pay for just one month. Second, lying in the sun is safer than a tanning bed because their UV rays are way more extreme. Third, they make acne and bacne worse because they increase inflammation. Fourth and prehaps the most important, tanning beds are PROVEN to cause cancer. So if you want a tan do it the old fashioned way, the natural way.

Dating the Bad Boys

I know what most of us think of dating bad boys: danger, excitment, and adventure. But really it's fights, cheating, and broken hearts. Boys who live wild aren't faithful, have anger issues, and need to be in control. They won't respect you, they just want someone and they can have several girls at once. Just be wise, date someone who will care for YOU!!

Catching an Eating Disorder

I know what you’re thinking, “There’s no way to catch an eating disorder.” But the truth is that if you hangout with someone who has an eating disorder they can give it to you. If they don’t eat certain foods it will make you feel bad about eating it in front of them, if they only eat a certain amount of calories you could start too. You may still think it can’t happen to you but here’s how your judgment could be clouded: the thought of being judged. Not wanting to be thought badly of by your peers can lead to being just like them. Just remember: being yourself is all that matters and if someone doesn’t like it, well then it’s their fault for not seeing your beauty.

Peer Pressure

As a lot of you know the crime rate in the country is has been going up, but here’s something you may not know: the juvenile crime rate in the country has been going up dramatically. There are many reasons for this but there is one major one that I’m going to talk about: Peer Pressure.
Peer Pressure is when you don’t want to do something but others will make you, either by words or by force. Peer pressure with words is when people threaten to make up stories about you or tell your whole school you’re a chicken. Peer pressure by force is when they hit or shove you and threaten to do worse.
A lot people who suffer peer pressure will do what they’re told because they don’t want the stories to come out or don’t want to get hurt. But the truth is there is a way out, telling an adult even a teacher could get it stopped. If that doesn’t work, going to the police is the smartest thing to do. Another tip is to travel in numbers, they less likely to beat you up if you are with people. Remember, even though more kids are getting into trouble, you don’t have to be forced into it.

Dating Older Guys

I know that a lot of girls think it’s cool to date guys who are older than them, but there are always limits; I’m going to tell you what those limits are. Here’s limit number one: If he is talking about commitment when you’re not even in collage yet, he’s too old. Number two: If he is so much older than you that you sneak out to be together, he’s still too old. Number three is probably the most important: If he feels ready to have sex, he is defiantly too old.
I know that lots of girls think they can handle dating older guys but the truth is that many of them aren’t. They want to feel more mature but they can be downgraded by an older guy’s expectation. Another thing is that a lot of older guys will just use young girls for sex and for a sense of control. Here are places a guy will look to manipulate you: Work, Coffee Shops, and at stores. If you work with an older guy who says he likes you and to prove it he stalks you here’s what you do: tell your parents and your boss. If it’s any other situation you should still always tell your parents, they’ll help you more than anyone else. Remember, a year or two age difference is all that major unless he is in collage and your in high school, but never date anybody who could be mistaken for your father, because that’s just weird.

Girl's Dreams

A lot of girls look into a mirror and tell themselves that they will never reach their goal, and I’m here to say that all goals and dreams can be reached if you try. Many female celebrities are born famous, but many others had to try unbelievably hard to achieve their dreams. Take Cleopatra for instance, a young women who had to fight her own brother to win back her country.
Many of female winners of American Idol had to may have a popular parent but they had to bear the harsh judge’s comments. Jordin Sparks has a famous football player for a father but had to put up with a judge not liking how curvy she is. Plus, all the girls who auditioned for that show had to sing on national television, I don’t know about you but I think that would really hard.
Many women in the military had to get past the hard training, the sexist men, and leaving their families. I think women like Cleopatra and Jordin show us that in the past and present, women have been strong and have always followed their dreams.

Girl's Education

I’m reading a book called Three Cups of Tea, written by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson and it is about Greg Mortenson. Greg built schools across the most remote regions of Pakistan and his schools let girls get an education. In the book he shows that in the Middle East lots of people think women should not be educated even though it says that they should in the Koran. While on a plane Greg sees a group of teenage Islamic girls dressed in their best clothes being herded around by men, those girls where sold to men to be prostitutes. Uneducated girls that were very beautiful were sold from their families and taken across the Middle East to have sex for money and then give the money to their masters. If the girls tried to run away, keep some of the money, or refused to have sex their punishments were either to be beaten or killed, even though lots of the girls died from severe beatings. Lots of these girls will or now have sexually transmitted diseases or have died from the man beating them during the sex. I think that all American girls who have or are getting their education should be thankful for their education and be sorry for the girls who where victims of this because they have no education.