#Teen Programs

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Check out the celestial wind chimes that our teens made during today’s TEENS GET CRAFTY program!

[businessmemes]

Business Boy is the most popular -- and only -- program for teens and pre-teens on BizNet, which is the only channel that exists.

[eldritchenochian]

been spending too much time on the wrong side of instagram reels lately and I just gotta say something.

can we please start supporting pregnant teens more?

now I get what you're thinking, "Oh, we shouldn't normalize teen pregnancy" that's not what im saying. teen pregnancy fucking sucks and a child raising a child should never be normalized. what I'm saying is they should be supported, regardless of if they are going through with the pregnancy or not for whatever reason.

did you know that about 3 in 10 afab people will get pregnant at least once before age 20? or that 7 in 10 living in foster care have experienced a pregnancy?

the teens who get pregnant and live in supportive homes are extremely lucky, regardless of whether or not they go through with the pregnancy or decide to keep the baby.

many get kicked out, living in shelters or on the streets, or with family members other than their parents or in foster care.

it is extremely difficult to find homes for pregnant teens in foster care, and the foster care system sends them to teen living programs that are basically glorified shelters.

a child raising a child deserves all the support they can get, not being cast aside in some shitty group home that doesn't really care about them.

sincerely, someone who got pregnant at 15 and was sent to a "program" until they were 18.

[swantonlibraryteens]

Teen Art Day: July 6 at 3:00 pm. Spray paint art, paint kindness rocks, clay art, and more. Check out the diamond art project going on all summer at the front desk as well!

[kiteou]

They’re cute

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[kitdkat]

Why are children romanticizing teen pregnancy? Like what is this hyper fixation with responsibility and distraught. Babies are great and all but people who actively strive for babies in their teen years are selfish. The life you can give to these kids isn't a blessing to these kids and when they grow up have every right to resent your actions.

[teencenterspl]

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We certainly had no shortage of creativity last Friday. We pulled nearly everything we had from the crafting supplies and makerspace and let y’all go nuts with it for two hours. And turned on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off just for fun 🚘

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 352

heard there was a new meme that involved drawing my comfort characters

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Our YA summer program supplies arrived today! Who’s ready to get creative (and very VERY colorful)???

Stay tuned for more TEENS GET CRAFTY dates to be added to our calendar soon. This program, for ages 12-18, meets in our Community Room once a month during the school year and then once a week in the summer time.

[phoenixkaptain]

How… does Robin’s costume work?

A question long asked by everyone. But mostly by me.

Well. I’ll tell you.

First thing’s first, we’re talking about classic Robin, Dick Grayson Robin, this Robin:

There’s a common misconception that Robin’s shirt is one piece (as in a red shirt with green sleeves) and that his panties are separate. You see a lot of people refer to his outfit as having green panties. You, like me, may have heard it before many a time.

Unfortunately. Dick Grayson is not going out every night in a shirt, panties, and a cape.

He’s literally wearing a green leotard with a red vest over it.

Literally just a green leotard. He’s never been wearing panties at all. It’s been a leotard this whole time!

Also, just as a side note, I think it’s kind of funny that his mask is almost always portrayed as black, except in this panel where he isn’t wearing it and it becomes green. Is it double-sided, black and green? No, the colours in the 60’s Teen Titans comics are just funky sometimes. And, they needed the mask to stand out from the black background.

“What’s the point of all this, Kacie?” I hear you asking.

There is no point. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk-

[flamedoesart]

I feel like people tend to forget that the reason children are on websites they really shouldn't be on, like Twitter for example, is because there are no spaces on the internet anymore specifically designed for children, unless it's for babies or toddlers.

The death of Flash also meant the death of thousands of games and websites specifically designed for the 9-13 demographic. Now granted, several games died long before Flash did (like the Holy Disney MMO trio - Pixie Hollow, ToonTown and Club Penguin) but there were other websites designed around what kids would enjoy. Sites like Kongregate, Sploder, GirlsGoGames and others were designed with kids in mind.

These sites were special in the sense that it gave fun games for children to play without even really needing to interact with other people directly. They could play the games and have fun. If they wanted to make friends they could, and oftentimes these sites had moderation to prevent kids from having full control over what they could say so as to prevent bullying and potential cyberstalking.

But now Flash is dead, and there's barely any hangout spots for that demographic anymore. I think the last remaining game you can play that doesn't require Flash that was a major part of the 2010s game nostalgia was Wizard101, but that game comes with the flaw of membership programs, similar to all the other MMOs that existed at the time.

Needless to say, the next time we ask in annoyance why there's so many 12 year olds on Twitter and Tik Tok, remember that it's because there's literally no online spaces anymore solely for them and only them, that majority of adults wouldn't step foot into anymore.

[swantonlibraryteens]

[seasideoranges]

idk if it’s just me but the whole “which atla kid in the gaang is the most mature” debates can get redundant and kind of exhausting at times. they’re kids. they’re multifaceted characters. they’re mature in some departments and immature in others. they have their strengths and weaknesses. also they’re kids lol.

[zooophagous]

Tuunbaq was trying to pick up Bingus in his mouth like an asshole so I had to rescue the poor traumatized goblin and forced her to pose for a selfie

[magicaleggplant]

Ilia Malinin: Hope » 2024 World Championships

[zonatcannibalism]

there is genuenly such an intresting case to be made about inner israeli religious problems compared to the international jewish community beacuse they both take a diffrente social role- the international jewish community is a minority and jews within israel arent. id put in the list i have of future resarch ideas if i hadnt known it could never be done cuz NO ONE IS NORMAL ABOUT ISRAEL

this insistance that everything related to israel even sligthly is evil, even if its like, CHERRY TOMATOS, is so dangorous.