Adra Young's Blog, page 10

How today's youth deals with being labled outcast and not fitting in?

Greetings everyone.  This weeks topic of discussion or, social dynamic was based upon young people not fitting in.  As a group we read various monologues from my book series that were  related to the topic.  Conducting a round robin, I decided to personally asked each one of my young adults how they felt about individuals who simply never seemed to fit in? 

Most of the young adults stated that they felt compassion for these individuals.  In fact, many of the young adults in my group found it t...

How Today's Youth Deals With Disappointments In Life?

Hello everyone.  Today makes the fifth week working with my young adults at the Detroit Impact Center in Detroit, Michigan.  As I mentioned in my blog last week, the social dynamic or topic of discussion for the week pertained to dealing  with disappointments in life.   As we dialogue about the topic, it  was discovered that many of the disappointments they encountered took place in their earlier years. 

Most of my young ladies  mentioned that priceless items were taken by individuals...

Dealing with today's young adults on the topic of happiness.

Currently serving as the Socialization skills curriculum provider at the Detroit Impact Center located in Detroit Michigan, I had the opportunity to dialogue with my group of  outstanding young adults on the content of pure and true happiness.   I kicked the session of by providing post cards for everyone.  They were instructed to list one good thing that had taken place in their lifetime.

I  of course to break the ice volunteered to go  first.  I went on to tell them the story of my roller...

Today's Youth And How They Deal With Grief And Unfortunate Events

Hello everyone!  This was week three with my young adult group here today in Detroit, Michigan. Our social dynamic or topic of  dialogue for the week was based upon grief and unfortunate events.   I provided each youngster a  self -analysis sheet with ten statements on how to deal with grief and unfortunate events.  The directions were to partner up with someone in the class and take turns asking one another how they felt about the 10 statements. They were instructed to  place either a...

How Today's Youth Handles Dealing With Overwhelming Secrets.

This week my young adults in my socialization skills class and I had the opportunity to dialogue on how to handle overwhelming secrets.  It was discovered that many of them had to hold on to something very painful vowing to never reveal it.  Reasoning had to deal with either letting a person down that they cared about or simply feeling that someone would retaliate due to them revealing it.  In other words, some of our youth take the statement" Snitches get Stitches" very close to heart.

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Learning From Today's Youth

Honored with the opportunity to mentor of group of young adults at the Detroit Impact Center, I had no idea how much they would teach me.  This week I along with a group of very intellectual males and females had the opportunity to discuss abandonment issues. People you would be surprised to know how much courage and strength our youth posses today. 

As I taught the class, I had come to find out that the majority of my group had endured  or had encountered some sort of abandonment issue. ...

A great way to reduce the hyperactivity with an all preteen male class.

Teaching for almost 15 years, one thing has always remained consistent, my young preteen males or "tweens" have always exhibited a lot of energy.  From them having difficulties to sitting  in a chair to not being able to sit in a chair at all, hyperactivity within this age range from my boys have been ongoing. Observing their behavior and learning patterns, I discovered something very significant about every Tuesday.

Every Tuesday, they have physical education at 9:00am.  Picking them up from ...

Parent & Teacher Communication Together Our Power Is Awesome

Today, I had a conference with one of my parents.  The intervention was awesome.  Together as a team with asked her child  following,"what is it that we both can do to make the rest of your school year successful?" People do you understand the power of that question  when it comes collaboratively  from both parent and teacher?

Just imagine how much better off  our kids would be in  school today if more teachers and parents could come together to ensure the success of our children?  Teachers...

Is Your Son Or Daughter Showing Signs Of Withdrawal?

Is your son or daughter showing signs of withdrawal? As a parent do you feel as if your child, tween, or teen is acting distant or slightly reclusive? If for some reason the answer is yes to either of the questions mentioned above, most likely your son or daughter is going through a challenge they find difficult to discuss with you. Sometimes parents unintentionally missed the signs of what could be troubling their kids due to work and often life's everyday demands.

Below are a few excerpts...

Firm When It Comes To Educating My Babies.

As and educator, sometimes it can be a challenge to get an appropriate return on homework assignments.  Approximately three years ago, I started a policy that allowed students to get a 15 minute head start on their assignments and the opportunity to complete the rest at home.  Well as we all know sometimes, a good thing at times can be taken for granted.

My all male sixth grade class for some apparent reason took it upon themselves to either not submit or turn in incompleted work.  Due to...