redhotcoach
Out on good behavior
- May 8, 2009
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Agreed, the issue is much bigger with boys. I was thinking about Marion Jones...I think you hit the nail on the head with the "get from their boyfriends" on that one.
Yep, why worry about drugs. I am sure the kids are all smart enough to avoid them, especially the ones that enhance physical ability. Why would a kid want that.You can imagine what you want, but I am not going to worry about something that is virtually nonexistent when there are so many real things to worry about.
Looking good
Recent studies by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate steroid use in high school appears to be on the decline, but that an estimated 3 to 6 percent of students have used them. A new area of concern is high-school age girls taking steroids for cosmetic reasons. A former Texas high school cheerleader made news in February when she revealed how, in 2003, she took them to get better toned. She wound up with depression and attempted suicide.
Diane Elliot, a professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University, devotes her time to a program called Athena, aimed at spreading awareness of the dangers of steroid use among girls, and Atlas focusing on boys. The program's Web site, using data from the CDC, estimates that 5.3 percent of teen girls have used steroids for cosmetic purposes.
....Then a funny thing happened, her peers caught up. Mommy and Daddy will still be proud of me won't they? If I can't get a scholarship will I still go to college, even though mommy and daddy have spent so much time and money making sure I was the best. Now I am not the best, I let them down. They aren't proud anymore. What can I do?
My dd is being tested today. She is a little worried that, while visiting a friend this weekend, she drank a local drink (soda) call SKI. It has caffine in it. That was Sunday for lunch and so, I told her she would be ok. The NCAA lays out what medications/drugs are acceptable and so, as long as you abide by that, everything should be alright.
I don't know how old your kids are, but at age 9 you do talk to your kids about drugs. In non specific terms but its exactly the right time to start. Not at 11 when you find out kids in school are already giving out misinformation, not at 13 when some kids are already experimenting, certainly not at 15 when a kid from school dies from huffing. You start young, in non specific terms and as they get older the conversations get more specific. If you don't warn them young, you might be too late.That is so strange of an occurrence I would not equate that with the rest of HS softball players. It is so counterintuitive as to be ridiculous. From their boyfriends? No way (after they see how it is obtained, how much it costs, how it is mixed, ingested and/or injected, and the resulting physical and pysch. changes, like extreme temper and on girls, facial hair; most girls with roiding boyfriends would be better warned about abusive relationships and to dump that type of guy). But go ahead and bring it up and give them a ridiculous idea at age 9.