As promised, this column is a follow-up to last week’s column from the 15-year-old who was concerned about chemical additives in our food. I met with our peer educators. With their help, we researched what they felt was a complicated subject. Our teen committee felt it was complicated ...
Q. Would you please talk about two things in your column? The first is pretty straightforward. I became curious about chemical additives in our food when I read that the FIFA team from Norway brought their own food to the U.S., rather than let their team eat American food. I asked you to post ...
Q. How do you deal with becoming an adult? – 17-year-old Mary Jo’s Response: I’ve been responding to teen questions since the 1980s and writing this column since 2005, and I believe this is one of the deepest questions I’ve received. I admire your courage in raising a topic many ...
Q. I have a lot of friends who graduated. I’m a senior this year. My friends are pretty much all going to college in the next weeks. My mom keeps saying how next year I’ll be doing the same thing. But I want to go to cosmetology school. I went to tech the last two years and I’m good at ...
Q. I leave for college in 5 weeks and I’m not coming back. I know that sounds dramatic. Here’s the truth. My parents are toxic. I live with adults who are mean and unkind to each other and to me. My two older siblings left home for college and never returned; they only connect with me. I ...
Q. I feel so dumb. Everyone I know seems to know slang and I have no idea. How can I keep up with slang? – 14-year-old Mary Jo’s Response: What an interesting question! I’m not surprised you’re curious about slang – it seems to change rapidly. Slang is a type of social code. It ...
