Calling All Students and Parents

Today's Youth Faces Today's Problems

Date: Monday May 19, 2008

Place:  Oxon Hill High School      
                6701 Leyte Drive
          Oxon Hill, MD 20745

Time:    6:30 p.m. 

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RSVP Linda. Thomas  (Linda.Thomas@pgcps.org) or 240-604-8246

 Greetings!  

The things they carry: Why are today's youth so angry?

As a community and parents, we must begin to ask ourselves some tough questions:

• Why are our kids so angry?
• What is causing them to resort to acts of violence against themselves and others?
• Exactly who is listening to them and making them feel valuable and loved, if not us?
• Are our children fighting the residual demons of our own pasts that we never dealt with?
• Are we listening to their cry for help?

COMMUNICATION  IS  THE  FIRST  LINE  OF  DEFENSE

Opportunities for Discussion with Professionals on -     

·        Locating Safe Havens

·        Youth Gang Prevention

·        Domestic Violence

·        Self Protection

·        Bullying

·        Ways You Can Help Your Child Minimize Peer Pressure

 Youth Round Table -  Q & A                   

Goal -  To provide parents strategies and techniques for problems facing today's youth.

REFRESHMENTS

For now, the emotional baggage our young people are forced to carry will continue to be packed alongside or even instead of homework every day, but we can all make a difference - if we want to.

Perhaps

• Eating meals at the table with our family.
• Upgrading our library instead of our cable.
• Taking the time to listen about another's day.
• Restoring loving discipline at home.
• Paying attention to the details.
• Showing love instead of buying it.
• Refusing to live vicariously through our children.