BEAUTY WITHIN ~ TEEN ESTEEM ™

ONLINE TICKET PURCHASES MUST BE PICKED UP AT THE WILL CALL BOOTH ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT - BRING YOUR RECEIPT AND ID TO WILL CALL BOOTH AT THE  EVENT. Los Angeles Black College Expo - Feb 22, 2014. Location: Los Angeles Convention Center Expo: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Seminars: 10:30 am - 3:00 pm Scholarship Ceremony and After Show: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Admission Cost: $10.00 Online Purchase: $8.00 Groups of 15 or more $7.00 Ages 11 & under FREE

  Teen years are a period of crucial brain development subject to a host of environmental and genetic factors. They are prone to risky behaviors and some of these behaviors have lifelong consequences. Adolescent drinkers, for example, develop profound changes on the genetic expression of releasing stress hormones. They are not able to get used to stressors and have exaggerated response to mild stress.

Read more. But before you go here are: A Few Reasons Why Reading Is Important (for kids AND adults) 1 . Kids who read often and widely get better at it. This is pretty much just common sense. After all, practice makes perfect in almost everything we humans do and reading is no different. 2 . Reading exercises our brains. Reading is a much more complex task for the human brain than, say, watching TV is. Reading strengthens brain connections and actually builds new connections. 3 . Reading improves concentration. Again, this is a bit of a no-brainer. Children have to sit still and quietly so they can focus on the story when they’re reading. If they read regularly as they grow up, they develop the ability to do this for. 4 . Reading teaches children about the world around them. Through reading, they learn about people, places and events outside their own experience. They are exposed to ways of life, ideas and beliefs about the world which may be different from tho...

BEAUTY WITHIN ~ TEEN ESTEEM ™ presented by Devezin Cosmetics : How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe?

Despite awareness and preparedness school shootings are once again live and very active! There's been no real reduction in the number of U.S. school shootings despite increased security put in place after the rampage at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. Last August, for example, a gun discharged in a 5-year-old's backpack while students were waiting for the opening bell in the cafeteria at Westside Elementary School in Memphis. No one was hurt. Finding factors to blame, rightfully or not, is almost the easy part: bad parenting, easy access to guns, less value for the sanctity of life, violent video games, a broken mental health system. The recent budget deal in Congress provides $140 million to support safe school environments, and is a $29 million increase, according to the office of Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Many schools now have elaborate school saf...

After a period of racial segregation in the former Confederacy following Reconstruction and social segregation in many areas of the country, more people are forming interracial unions again. Social conditions have changed and increasingly diverse immigration has brought new groups to the United States. The number of acknowledged interracial couples and mixed-race children has increased in the United States. In addition, since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement.   Continue