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Here are 13 wise suggestions from TreeHouse teens:

Ask questions, it will help you in the long run.
Be yourself, you will be more popular that way.
Check for toilet paper when you enter the stall.
Don’t procrastinate; there won’t be time later.
Get good sleep, each night, it makes school easier.
If you fall asleep in class, expect your teacher to embarrass you.
If you really have to fight someone there is no reason to do so on school grounds.
It doesn’t matter if you were trendy clothes even if people think it does.
Most of the time you can trust most of the teachers.
Remember you always have more growing up to do.
Someone will always think they’re better than you.
The more patient you are the better you’ll survive.
Girls: Keep a tampon or feminine pad in your locker.

Honesty is a culturally threatening virtue. So threatening that few people make it a constant choice. It’s counter-cultural to choose to be honest.

Cultural Corruption

People joked about cheating on their taxes – “it’s okay unless you get caught.” People make “little white lies.” They cover up the truth “to protect the other person.”

“Everyone lies” and “everyone lies some of the time” are routinely used to justify the choice to be dishonest. That’s if the choice to be dishonest is ever challenged.

“You love evil more than good and lies more than truth”, says the songwriter.

After years of passive participation in the TED community I finally felt obliged to comment today.

http://www.ted.com

There are many spiritual paths, I have no interest in debating their merits or misgivings. Scholars, theologians apologists & philosophers can do that far better than I can.

I’m neither meritorious not mentally impared.

I know that I have a personal relationship with God. I also know that God initiated it.

I have never heard an audible voice; I had to learn how to recognize God’s involvement and interaction with me.