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Teen spirit
The media is full of horror stories about the state of the mental health of our children. As always when problems for teens arise, suggestion flood in which are almost always: our schools should be doing more about bullying, poor diets, kids watching pornography, knife crime, drug abuse, physical fitness etc. The list is unending, and we certainly cannot keep trying to dump this on already hard-pressed teachers.
What is clear to me as a youth worker with 50 years’ experience, is that we are not looking hard enough at what is the cause of all these problems.
If we listen to our teens, they tell us that…
