[Times photo: Krystal Kinnunen]
Teens learn life lessons by creating video memoirs and scrapbooks with hospice patients. And in the process, they spread joy and comfort. Story
In a predicament? Call a peer
Peer mediation programs help students solve problems with little input from adults.
Hot Stuff!
The movie isn't out yet (just four more days!) but the toys based on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone are on store shelves now. Check out Harry's Levitating Challenge (Mattel, $34.99). The object of the game is to guide a floating ball (held up by air) through obstacles on a maze. Other Potter toys include action figures, Lego sets, an interactive Roarin' Snorin' Norbert and a 3-D board game.
It's time for honesty
If I am honest with myself, I know the truth: I don't always like me! I know this because in everything I do, I make sure I am one-up on the others around me. I choose people to be my friends who may be considered by others to be beneath me. I guess I do this because it makes me feel superior to them.
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