Straight Talk For Teens By Teens

Dear Readers: Last week the teen panel and I responded to “Call me square” who complained that all her daughter’s friends dressed like hookers for Halloween. She then asked if Halloween was where girls began training to be strippers as she’d heard that one in 22 girls works as a one. To my…

Dear Straight Talk: What’s with all the slutty Halloween costumes? My 13-year-old’s friends all dressed like hookers. My daughter was in a Renaissance outfit and was furious with me because she felt “stupid” at the middle school dance. She’s still mad at me! Don’t the girls care that they…

Dear Straight Talk: I moved in with my dad and step-mom over the summer and am attending eighth grade at my third middle school. My stepmother obviously knows what it’s like to be a teenager because she got me braces for my teeth, took me to a hair stylist, and bought me clothes that look…

Dear Straight Talk: I’m a graduating senior and maybe this will save somebody the agony I went through. In your advice last week you said: “Do what you’re good at. Embrace your strengths and you’ll find your fortune. Do the same when you look in the mirror. Zoom in on your best features.”

Dear Straight Talk: I’m a 16-year-old boy and I’m wondering why girls have so many mood swings. Some days they wake up happy, other days they wake up angry at the world. I’ve asked girls about this and they don’t know the reason. They say, “It’s just my day, it’s just how I woke up.” For me,…

Dear Straight Talk: I’m 17 and I agree with a lot of what Farren had to say in last week’s column about the problems with my generation. Everyone’s trying to look so perfect resulting in eating disorders and large amounts of stress mentally and physically. The question is: Why do we feel we…