So what are American teens learning from those magazines they have read? Everybody understands in our days that being a teenager is such a troubling time. There are many temptations in the world around you and it is very difficult to be firm and persistent. They want to follow fashion. At the same time, there is a mistakable feeling that everything is possible and you will live forever. Idealism is practically synonymous with being a teenager. This is what makes being a teen so exciting, confusing and dangerous. Any information coming out from adults is considered as false and unnecessary. They spend their precious time in clubs where teens are having fun with using drugs and alcohol. They love dancing and assure their parents that they are absolutely safe. Experimenting with drugs worries a little at first but they think that they control their use. Some of them even have a good job and do well in school. But there's the reality of the 90th - drugs, drunken driving accidents and AIDS. So behind all the make-up hints, fashion and movie reviews, there are serious things too. There are magazines educate and inform teens about health care, because after all, AIDS doesn't care about your clothes or your dreams for the future. Information must be interpreted in the right way and it was parents who are responsible for it. In order not to have their teens dead from drugs overdose they must speak to them, help understand all the information correctly and spend much more time together. Teens seem to be self-confident and assured but they are fragile and vulnerable at the same time. Be careful while treating and growing a teen and you will be awarded - he/she will be alive.
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