| Reality Matters: Becoming an Adult VIDEO or DVD
Adulthood is known for its responsibilities, one of them is having children. We
see the many responsibilities involved in having and rearing a child. These
responsibilities are magnified, and unfortunately unfulfilled in many cases, when teens
have babies. It's difficult to take on adult responsibilities when you're still in the
midst of growing up. This program explores how adolescence is the entry into adulthood,
along with the many pitfalls for those who try to grow too fast.
Reality Matters: Big
Decisions VIDEO or DVD
If given the choice, who wouldn't choose health over illness? No one. But it's
not just one choice that people make — to be healthy or not. It's a series of
millions of choices, made every day: Do I wear a seatbelt? Do I try to make a new friend?
Do I eat my 10th cheeseburger of the week? Do I go out for the varsity team? Do I drink
just because everyone else is? This video focuses on the decisions kids make every day and
how to make the best ones possible.
Reality Matters: Cruel
Schools VIDEO or DVD
Taunting, teasing, and the playground brawl used to be considered child's play.
The schoolyard bully was just another rite of passage in adolescent life. Now, kids report
times have changed. From Colorado to Michigan, most kids and experts say bullying is the
first step of a continuum of school violence that can escalate to murder.
Reality Matters:
Deadly Desires VIDEO or DVD
One in three teenagers has had sex by age 16; two in three by 18. According to
researchers, a quarter of those sexually active teenagers will contract a sexually
transmitted disease. And those with STD's are two to five times more likely to contract
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In America today, most people living with HIV were
infected as teenagers. While most kids know about AIDS and STD's — and understand how
to avoid them — statistics show that many aren't practicing what's being preached.
This program will explore the reasons why. Is it that teenagers don't believe it can
happen to them? Is it that they don't care? Or is low self-esteem preventing them from
doing the right things to protect themselves?
Reality Matters: Deadly
Highs VIDEO or DVD
A new generation of kids are experiencing addiction to drugs and alcohol but a
modern world has created an alarming accessibility. Alcohol sales on the Internet are up
and have become an increasingly popular way for underage savvy teens to purchase booze.
Acid is now available in clever strips that fit neatly inside a school notebook and a
large number of teens are quickly becoming addicted to drugs inside their parents medicine
cabinets.
Reality Matters:
Extreme Measures VIDEO or DVD
In a country obsessed with the perfect body the pressure starts early. Once just
thought to be an issue for adolescent girls, the desire to have a body beautiful is
impacting kids as young as seven and has moved to boy's locker rooms across the country.
But what are the consequences?
Reality Matters:
Family and Friends VIDEO or
DVD
Some of the most important relationships that we develop are with friends and
family. In our families we learn how to accept and receive love — or not. What we
learn at home we take to our intimate relationships outside the family. Our attitudes
toward intimacy and sexuality owe a lot to what we see when growing up. In adolescence we
go form the shelter of home to have intimate relationships with peers. These include close
friendships, dating, and even sex and marriage. This program will explore the different
facets of these very important relationships.
Reality Matters:
High Performance VIDEO or DVD
This video focuses on the frenzied popularity of sports among kids, parents, and
schools. Whether it's T-ball, gymnastics, kick boxing, or a soccer scholarship, every kid
seems to feel the pressure to be involved in sports. The first segment details the
benefits of sports including the benefits of physical activity, mental confidence gained
through sports and the overall benefit of the competitive, team building experience;
however, the program warns against three high risk factors involved in taking sports to
extremes.
Reality Matters:
Mental Health VHS 5-pack VIDEO SET
This video 5-pack will help you speak directly to your students about the serious
issues teens face during puberty. Videos include: Taking Care of Me - Big Decisions -
Risky Business - High Performance - Extreme Measures
Reality
Matters: Prescription for Trouble
VIDEO or DVD
More kids than ever are abusing drugs they can find right in their own homes. The
National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that four million Americans, ages twelve and
older are using over-the-counter and prescription medicine for non-medical reasons. The
greatest increase is among 12 to 17 year olds. In this program, experts put forth three
explanations for the explosion in abuse of legal drugs: easier access, a false sense that
these drugs are safe, and a "medicine mindset" in our culture, where kids see
adults around them taking medicine for every conceivable pain and sadness. But abuse of
these drugs is addictive and dangerous.
Reality Matters: Risky
Business VIDEO or DVD
With adolescence comes new independence. And with that freedom comes choice and
temptation to break the rules. Teenagers often risk their futures by skipping school. And
when they get a drivers license, it opens the door to a whole new world of risk-taking.
The Department of Justice reports, "Today a 15 year old is more likely to commit a
violent crime in the U.S. than a 30 year old." Kids often believe that they are
invincible. In this program we will take a look at some of the devastating results that
occur when kids take risks without fully considering the consequences.
Reality
Matters: Relationships VHS 5-pack VIDEO SET
This video 5-pack will help you speak directly to your students about the serious
issues teens face during puberty. Videos include: Cruel Schools - Sexual
Pressures - Family and Friends - Becoming an Adult - Deadly
Desires
Reality Matters:
Sexual Pressures VIDEO or DVD
Kids need to be educated early how to deal with their sexual feelings and
understand accepted limits. From pulling bra straps to dating violence, new research
indicates the best tool for kids is early education. Ten years ago the term sexual
harassment was scarcely talked about in the largest corporate offices and now many
middle-schoolers take required prevention classes. Experts find that sexual harassment
begins in the middle school level and escalates through high school. The program focuses
on how teens and pre-teens learn to deal with treating the opposite sex as their own
bodies develop.
Reality Matters: Smoke
Signals VIDEO or DVD
Teens and adolescents in record numbers are becoming hooked on tobacco, from
cigarettes to a rise in the use of smokeless tobacco to boutique cigarettes such bidis.
Through interviews with students, parents, doctors, and teachers, the program explores the
rise of teens using tobacco. The program explores three themes: The selling of tobacco to
a new generation of savvy adolescents — does advertising work? The rise in tobacco
sales including smokeless tobacco and new trends in cigarettes. The battle to get kids off
tobacco using techniques such as the nicotine patch — are young kids truly addicted
or are they smoking for image? As more kids turn to tobacco, experts are now focusing
efforts not on prevention to pick up that first cigarette, but how to get them off before
they are locked into a lifelong addiction.
Reality Matters:
Taking Care of Me VIDEO or
DVD
Health is not just about physical bodies. How we feel about ourselves is just as
important. In a world that celebrates looks, achievement, money and possessions, it's our
emotional health — who we are on the inside — that will ultimately determine our
happiness. The teen years are an especially vulnerable time filled with questioning and
self-doubt as well as a great deal of stress. This video will explore the many influences
and experiences that shape an individual's emotional health, as well as specific tools for
managing stress and maintaining a positive self-image.
Reality Matters:
Under the Influence VIDEO or
DVD
No big deal. That's what many kids — and even some parents — think
about alcohol. It's everywhere: in commercials, on billboards, in clubs and restaurants,
in our homes. But disturbing new research from the American Medical Association finds that
alcohol permanently shrinks the part of a teenager's brain that controls memory and
learning. The damage is being done in greater numbers — and at a younger age than
ever. In addition to brain damage and alcohol poisoning, getting drunk also puts you at
greater risk of becoming a victim of crime, or even committing a crime yourself. This
program will focus on the deadly decisions that alcohol can often lead to. |
