The stupid games teens play
About 79,000 Ontario students in Grades 7 to 12 have reported participating in the “choking game,” which involves self-asphyxiation or being purposely strangled by someone else in a bid to get high, according to a new survey.
Are we really raising kids that are not smart enough to figure out the risks in games like this?
I’m almost half tempted to go on a rant about today’s teens and how they are so “entitled” and “spoiled” but how can you argue those points when they lack the ability to figure out just how dangerous the choking game and other methods used to get high genuinely are?
Short of choking them for playing the choking game, what is a parent to do?
I honestly cannot fathom such chaos even entering my home and I hope and pray it never does.
source: National Post
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6 opinions for The stupid games teens play
tanyetta
May 1, 2008 at 2:48 pm
this story is sad. i’m off to confirm with my 20 year old to make sure she knows the choking game isn’t the fun thing to do. hey, you never know.
Kadi
May 2, 2008 at 11:38 am
I know of two teens in our area who have died doing this. One boy used a belt to do it, but couldn’t unfasten it in time and hung himself. I’m scared to death of this kind of stuff being popular. It is time that we, as parents, educate our kids on a little something called “reality.”
Ashley
May 2, 2008 at 12:23 pm
This is right on up there with huffing gas..
tabbi
May 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm
well, i’m 25, over a decade ago, my friends and i played the choking game. Its not new…not at all. All of these type of things pass from generation to generation. Adults do not warn children of these sorts of things early enough. We were probably 8 or 9 when we started these games, not “teens”, not even what you call preteens…Its not unnatural… once a person learns, what it could be to die, they have to have their own experiments with it. Not to REALLY die, just to figure out for themsleves (at an early age) what it could be like. Why else do kids love to play “cops and robbers”, “cowboys and indians”, one “kills” the other. Teens, however, have been around….they read deeper into the scheeme of things…but we still treat them as children, and they are not.
tabbi
May 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm
well, i’m 25, over a decade ago, my friends and i played the choking game. Its not new…not at all. All of these type of things pass from generation to generation. Adults do not warn children of these sorts of things early enough. We were probably 8 or 9 when we started these games, not “teens”, not even what you call preteens…Its not unnatural… once a person learns, what it could be to die, they have to have their own experiments with it. Not to REALLY die, just to figure out for themsleves (at an early age) what it could be like. Why else do kids love to play “cops and robbers”, “cowboys and indians”, one “kills” the other. Teens, however, have been around….they read deeper into the scheeme of things…but we still treat them as children, and they are not.
SP
Jun 24, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Clearing out the idiots from the gene pool at least.
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