TEEN TRUTH: VOICES - Listen to this TEEN TRUTH Tribe Member discuss how he can learn from watching other people make mistakes. This knowledge helps him stay on the right path.

The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J. Punish him, insisted the parents. “I said, ‘This occurred out of school, on a weekend,’” recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. “We can’t discipline him.” Had they contacted the boy’s family, he asked. Too awkward, they replied. The fathers coach sports together. What about the police, Mr. Orsini asked. A criminal ...

TEEN TRUTH: INSIGHT - Meet a TEEN TRUTH Expert that speaks about how bullying affects students on so many levels. She offers some simple advice.... Ask questions! She believes the most important thing you can do is just get kids talking and listen to them.

I am still thinking about my discussion with TEEN TRUTH film director Erahm Christopher after watching clips from the TEEN TRUTH: PARENTS & FAMILY film he is currently working on. I was actually just like one of those troubled 15-year-olds that I saw in the film and I think one very important thing I forgot to stress was that it's not enough for parents to love their children, and not even enough to tell them that they love them. We have to show them that ...

"Choose your battles wisely" - Unknown What are you fighting for? Some of the battles that we face are really not worth the effort, and others are. How do we choose? Where do we put our energy? This choice can often be tough. Sometimes we rush the decision and just react. And later, find ourselves regretting that choice - a decision to fight over something trivial. Choosing where to spend our time and energy does take wisdom, and wisdom comes with experience. Some of us are born with great common sense, while others just ...

How do you SHOW your love? Do you assume that your friends and family know how you feel? Or do you take the time to TELL them the TRUTH  about what's on your mind and in your heart? Relationships take work - there's just no way to around it! We've all had relationships that challenge us. Sometimes we worry that it's just not "cool" to tell people the TRUTH about how much we care about them. And sometimes when the going gets rough, it's appealing to think about just ignoring the demands our relationships make on us. But when we take ...

TEEN TRUTH: INSPIRATION - Follow VAM TV Reporter, Tyler Vanlue, as he reflects on his experience seeing TEEN TRUTH and the power of sharing his own TRUTH!

TEEN TRUTH: VOICES - Meet a student who is thinking differently about how she connects with students on campus. She states that we need to make sure that we are aware of how we interact with others because we might not understand what they are going through or what pressures they are dealing with.