• "This is how to run a stick of Chapstick down the black boxes on your scantron so the grading machine skips the wrong answers. This is how to honor roll. Hell, this is how to National Honor Society. This is being voted “Most Likely to Marry for Money” or “Talks the Most, Says the Least” for senior superlatives. This is stepping around the kids having panic attacks in the hallway. This is being the kid having a panic attack in the hallway. This is making the A with purple moons stamped under both eyes. We had to try. This is telling the ACT supervisor you have ADHD to get extra time. Today, the average high school student has the same anxiety levels as the average 1950’s psychiatric patient. We know the Pythagorean theorem by heart, but short-circuit when asked “How are you?” We don’t know. We don’t know. That wasn’t on the study ...

• There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The stairs is not one of them.
• Never cancel dinner plans by text message.
• Don’t knock it ‘til you try it.
• If a street performer makes you stop walking, you owe him a buck.
• Always use ‘we’ when referring to your home team or your government.
• When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
• Don’t underestimate free throws in a game of ‘horse’.
• Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
• Don’t dumb it down.
• You only get one chance to notice a new haircut.
• If you’re staying more than one night, unpack.
• Never park in front of a bar.
• Expect the seat in front of you to reclin...

• "Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close." - Stephen King
• “She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart” - Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
• “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo
• “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” -Alejandro Jodorowsky
• "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
• “Do not fall in love with people like me, we will take you to museums and parks and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place so that you can never go back to them without tasting us like blood in your mouth”
• "Boys will tickle your spine with their f...

• new glasses / contacts
• bralettes / undies
• new makeup - full coverage makeup

How to talk to your daughter about her body, step one: don’t talk to your daughter about her body, except to teach her how it works.

Don’t say anything if she’s lost weight. Don’t say anything if she’s gained weight.

If you think your daughter’s body looks amazing, don’t say that. Here are some things you can say instead:

“You look so healthy!” is a great one.

Or how about, “you’re looking so strong.”

“I can see how happy you are – you’re glowing.”

Better yet, compliment her on something that has nothing to do with her body.

Don’t comment on other women’s bodies either. Nope. Not a single comment, not a nice one or a mean one.

Teach her about kindness towards others, ...

• set up workout schedule
• lose 5-10 lbs (thighs / arms / torso)
• tone body (torso / thighs / butt)
• get a job
• buy myself cute things (undergarments / shirts / dresses / etc)
• save money for summer trips!
• become a better person
• read more books, poetry (classical, romantic, mythological, historical)
• expand vocabulary
• write more
• document things - journal of life / journal of poetry
• spend more time naked

• Do not kill yourself. Killing yourself is very messy and your mother will cry over you. It is not beautiful or brave, and even if it was, you will not be around to see that.
• Washing your hair is going to be a chore. But you should do it anyway. Because you will feel better about yourself.
• Get up late. Have a lay in. Sleep past your alarm. You have a very long life ahead of you and for now you should appreciate the cold side of your pillow.
• He is going to break your heart but he’s just another male human who finds it hard to deal with Mondays, too. So in a month you’ll wake up and you won’t even remember that little scar on his knuckle you kissed.
• Don’t spend hours looking up what your name means on google. Your name is your name and you should go out there and do he...

to read:

• steal like an artist - austin kleon
• lolita - vladimir nabokov
• an abundance of katherines - john green
• eleanor & park - rainbow rowell
• catcher and the rye - j.d salinger
• the book thief - markus zusak
• fight club - chuck palaniuk
• you get so alone at times that it just makes sense - charles bukowski
• slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut

read:

• great gatsby - f scott fitzgerald
• looking for alaska - john green