Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Let’s Talk Series #4 – Any last questions before you have THE TALK with your child?

Heather O’Neill, coordinator for Straight Up’s Let’s Talk program, presents a series of helpful posts, resources, and articles on a regular basis for the Straight Up blog. Let’s face it. Parenting can be very overwhelming. Here you are, doing your best to take care of a million things, keep track of two million more, and [...]

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Seeing it first-hand

On August 30, 2008, sixteen-year-old Dylan Pendleton was killed after the truck he was driving hit a pole in Camarillo, California. It was reported that he was drunk when the crash occurred. To follow is an account by a friend of Dylan’s, who was also 16 at the time of Dylan’s death.

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The teen drinking epidemic can be ironic

The poem referenced in Shawn McMaster’s blog post Poetry for a Cause on the Straight Up blog, goes, in part: I went to a party, And remembered what you said. You told me not to drink, Mom, so I had a Sprite instead … I got into my car, Sure to get home in one [...]

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