Condom Snorting Challenge ..yep the latest craze

YouTube is the place to learn the latest challenges for your kids. Believe it or not your kids are learning some down right dangerous crap on YouTube.
Like the "Cinnamon Challenge" " Chubby Bunny or Marshmallow Challenge" or the "Salt and Ice Challenge" all of these are dumb and stupid and can be found on YouTube with other such risky behaviors like "The Choking Game" that has claimed thousands of pre-teen and teen lives in the US and UK. 

This latest craze amongst teens on YouTube is putting them in real danger of choking and suffocating. As seen in the video below, 3 girls snort (yes, SNORT) condoms through their noses and attempt to pull them out of their mouths. After much gagging and choking they accomplish the disgusting feat. 

Not without a bit of vomit though. Yuck!

These videos are getting huge amounts of views on a daily basis and it can only be fueling the condom-snorting fire.

The Condom Challenge sounds simple, really, and it is -- simple and possibly fatal: To complete the challenge, a teen has to snort a condom up his or her nose and expel it through his or her mouth WITHOUT choking to death in the process. (If you choke to death, you lose! Ha, ha!) Not so funny huh?
Come on people, this is not only disgusting, it is just irresponsible and gross! If you think that snorting a condom up your nose makes you look cool, it does not!
As a nurse I can tell you that if you choke on this condom it is very hard to "fish" it out of your trachea or lungs, look at the diagram below and see how easy it is for that condom to go the wrong way and end up blocking your airway.

Please be responsible and be safe! 

Wordless Wednesday-- what is it??

Are you a parent? what is this? 

May: Stroke Awareness Month

Food Safety- Good Food- Gone Bad, Protect Yourself

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Stand Up, Speak Out and Do Something! #stopbullyingnow

A repost from my family blog Chipsofftheoldblock.blogspot.com
What can you do about bullying? 
Teach your kids what bullies are, what cyberbullies are. Respect for others begins at home, teach your kids to respect others, that way they don't become the bully.
Have a plan if your child is ever bullied, they already know it is ok to come to you and tell you about the activity. If a friend is being bullied it is ok to tell a parent or another adult, just standing by and doing nothing will not help the problem go away. 
Educate yourself and your family about violence. Do it now!

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies Psalm18:3
Psalm 55:22  Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

 

11 Facts about Bullying that just tear my hide up! As a mom especially. 

• Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.

• 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4 percent of the time.

• Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.

• 1 in 7 students in grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying.

• 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.

• Over two-thirds of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying, with a high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective.

• 71 percent of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.

• 90 percent of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.

• 1 out 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying.

• Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 percent of school-shooting incidents.

• Physical bullying increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school.  Verbal abuse, on the other hand, remains constant.

• A 2009 survey found that 9 out of 10 LGBT youth reported being verbally harassed at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation.

These statistics are sickening and embarrassing to me, I can not believe that in America we can let this kind of activity go on in our school systems, systems that our tax dollars pay for!!
Another reason I will continue to homeschool my children until they graduate high school. Now I do realize that they can be bullied anywhere at anytime, even online, but they have been educated enough to know that it is wrong and will not be tolerated. This momma bear would not be happy if she found out her child had been bullied and somebody stood by watching and did nothing.
As a parent, I can not believe that other parents let bullying occur in schools without raising the roof off the school building.
Just my personal opinion. They say homeschool kids are not socialized, my teen daughter told me she did not want to socialize with bullies and drama, she wants to learn, that is why she is happy at home. 

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Faces of Drug Addiction (warning graphic photos) #drugabuse #meth

These photos speak for themselves, doing methamphetamine will change your life forever!

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http://www.rehabs.com/explore/meth-before-and-after-drugs/infographic.html#.UV4695Pyor4

The above imagery paints a harrowing picture of how devastating the use of various methamphetamines can be. Think we're being overly dramatic? Think again. Meth has been called the world's most dangerous drug and many U.S. cities, particularly across the Midwest, now consider it the most serious drug problem they face. In 2009, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) released findings concluding that some 1.2 million Americans over the age of twelve had abused methamphetamine in the last 12-month period. A year later, a report published by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicated some 13 million people were thought to have abused methamphetamine during their lives.

Hello My Name is: Meph, Meow, MCAT, Drone, Bubbles aka: Bath Salts

Totally not the bath product that soaks your cares away! This designer drug has been given the incorrect name and confusion with the bath and body product has kept it from being more readily known. Parents are less likely to ask questions about something called "bath salts", healthcare providers have not even gotten wise enough to know the difference unless you have taken care of a wild patient that has been under the influence of this nasty stuff.
The infographic has some interesting facts and the history of the drug commonly called "Bath Salts".

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