When mom took the teens to the airport July 28, there was already trouble. Flight delays made the connection schedule tight.
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US Airways Misplaces Two Teenagers
By 8.9.07
Teen Chooses Walmart Electronics Department As Best Location To Set Himself On Fire
By 4.18.07
Reports said the man, from the 2000 block of Arlington Avenue, used a lighter and tissues stuffed in his pocket to ignite his jacket, which became “severely burnt.”
Pizza Hut: Wear Your Seatbelt, Get Free Pizza
By 4.2.07
Here’s another one for the “Book It!” haters, Pizza Hut is giving away free pizza to Ohio High School kids if they’re seen wearing their seatbelts during Ohio’s “Buckle Up for a Successful Season” campaign.
Should You Give Your Teenager A Credit Card?
By 1.9.07
A lot of you already do, it seems. “A 2005 study by the Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy reveals that 31.8 percent of high school seniors use a credit card. About half of these students have a card in their own names and the rest use cards issued in a parent’s name.” Is this wise?
Cingular To Hold “Texting Bees” For Parents
By 11.27.06
From The New York Times: “The company, the largest cellphone carrier in the United States, will hold a series of interactive “texting bees” around the country early next year to teach parents how to send text messages to their children. The promotion is a way to increase sales, of course. But the company contends that its campaign will help parents get to know their sons and daughters by teaching them teenage slang and the advantages of texting over making phone calls, sending e-mail or simply having a conversation.
Study: Herbal Supplements Turn Kids Into Crack Fiends
By 3.24.06
Back when I was in high school, there was only one kind of ‘herbal supplement’: the magic jay bone. Quizzing me and my horde of giggling compatriots in the back of senile Mrs. Johnson’s fourth period Remedial English class, any researcher who cared to have asked would have found that the ratio of herbal supplement takers to illegal drug users was one to one.
