Features by Amelia M.
May 7th, 2014 | Stay Out Loud
Not wanting to talk about sex with your parents is a self-fulfilling prophecy…we think it’s impossible and awkward and unnecessary, and so it becomes impossible and awkward, even if it is necessary.
And frankly, talking to parents about sex has a bad name—but they can actually be a very important resource for teens who are just beginning to deal with relationships and sex. Parents have much more experience than their kids and they obviously know us very well; ultimately, they…
September 5th, 2012 | Stay Out Loud
Switching to a new school is, in a word, overwhelming. In my case, you’re thrown into a class of 300 kids, on a campus with 700 kids, with tons of hard classes, and no friends (yet).
First, a little bit of background. I, unlike most kids switching schools, had the choice to continue going to high school at my old school, but decided to switch out. It wasn’t a situation where everyone was splitting up and venturing off to new places for high school—I chose to leave,…
April 26th, 2011 | Stay Out Loud
Parents don’t get that things move faster now than they did back when they were young. My mom always tells me that she didn’t have a boyfriend until she was 17 and that some people never dated much in high school at all. It’s not necessarily a good change—but parents don’t seem to understand that the process that may have started in 11th grade for them has lowered all the way down to 6th or 7th for us.
On the not-so-often occasion when I talk to my mom about…
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