Category Archives: Tip Sheets

  • Setbacks Make Us Stronger

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  • College Drop Outs

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100728_dropouts.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “It’s very, very easy for students to become over-committed very quickly and to lose sight of why they’re in college.” – Sherrie Nist, Ph.D., Professor College students leave for campus packed with hopes and dreams. Yet, according to research from the American Enterprise Institute, nationally, just over half of […]

  • Heat and Dehydration

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100616_dehydration.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “The progression from heat cramps to heat exhaustion to heat stroke and death can occur very quickly. A kid laying in the morgue who recently died of heat illness doesn’t look very tough to me.” – David Marshall, M.D., Sports Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta The excessive summer heat […]

  • The Drug Talk

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/101020_drugtalk.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “The parents need to be very clear at saying. I am not giving you permission to do that. I am not telling you that it’s a good idea, I’m telling you that it’s a bad idea. And here’s why it’s a bad idea. That’s why we have rules now […]

  • More Reading, Less Screen Time

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100728_reading.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “We don’t listen enough as parents, or teachers. And if we listen and understand what kids really thrive on, individual kids, then we can find a book or a magazine that will fit their interest.” – David Payne, former high school principal Data from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests […]

  • Screen Time

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100616_screen.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “Instead of using that time to become an adult, by learning how to talk adults, learning how to talk to women, learning how to talk to men, learning how to figure out what they want to do with their lives. Those are hours that are lost, that can never […]

  • Bike Helmets Save Lives

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100721_helmets.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “Dr. Johnston: I’m glad you had your helmet on. Dane: Me, too.” – Dr. Carden Johnston, ER Pediatrician, and Dane, Age 11, after a bicycle accident shattered Dane’s helmet According to the latest research from the CDC, a large majority of kids rarely or never wear a bike helmet… […]

  • The Age of Anxiety

    CWK Network By Robert Seith CWK Senior Producer "I think there’s so much we have to deal with now." Steve, 17, talking about teenage stress. In the 1950’s, ‘Duck and Cover’ was the signature line of a generation living under the constant fear of nuclear war. But as much as that fear may have caused […]

  • The Teenage Brain and Smoking

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/101020_smoking.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “I started smoking cigarettes when I was 10, I started smoking weed and drinking when I was 13, I started doing crystal [methamphetamine] when I was 14, I started doing cocaine when I was 15.” – Renee, 15 Every October, students around the country celebrate Red Ribbon Week… talking […]

  • Teens and Sleep – 30 More Minutes!

    AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0′,’width’,’320′,’height’,’295′,’id’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’align’,’middle’,’src’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’quality’,’high’,’bgcolor’,’#ffffff’,’name’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’,’pluginspage’,’http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer’,’flashvars’,’videoFile=http://www.cwkn.net/tip_vids/100721_sleep.flv’,’movie’,’/media/tipsheet-videoplayer/videoplayer-tipsheet’ ); //end AC code “As children age, they naturally develop a delay in their onset of sleep, or their sleep phase. It’s part of natural maturation. And kids get to sleep around 10 o’clock or even 11 o’clock into the later teenage years.” – Jeffrey Durmer, M.D., explaining one reason why teenagers tend […]