6 Tips For Surviving Your First Day of High School

Up late tossing and turning before your first day of school? Don’t worry, it won’t be that bad. Just keep your head up and follow this guide.

Just BU’s Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Teens- B a Better, happier U!!

Here’s a list of the most common New Year’s resolutions – and, more importantly, some ideas for getting started on them (and actually keeping them past January 1st).

Gaia- a virtual escape for Teens

Gaia Online: An Escape For Teens

GigaOm has an article about Gaia Online, a virtual world and online hangout inhabited by teens. Gaia already has considerable traffic with 300,000 users logging in each day. GigaOm says most of the activity at Gaia actually takes place in the online forums.

Just BU- Panellists

Just BU has been very fortunate to gain the support and endorsement of many      well-established and notable role models.

Why UR support makes a difference

Just BU Panels -

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• žFocus on being a “preventative” catalysts as opposed to other programs that deal with teens that have already  been “diagnosed” eg, with depression, eating disorders, suicide etc

• žProvide teenagers  with access to “real role models with real stories”

• žAct as a catalyst for constructive communication between the teens, parents and teachers

• žBuild personal belief

• žBuild positive self esteem

• žEncourage teenagers and parents to become  positive risk takers

• žEncourage teenagers and parents to set realistic goals

• žAllow teenagers to see that they are not alone in the struggles and issues facing them

• žRemind parents what it was like when they were teenagers and the issues they faced

• žDemystify the “perfect” teenage/ adult relationship by listening to and learning from the panellists

• žShare advice and tips for time and stress management

• žEncourage ongoing shared communication and trust between teenagers and adults

Cultivating a Realistic Body Image- Just BU :)

The next time you can spare a minute, have a look in the mirror. What do you see staring back at you? How would you describe yourself? How do you perceive your body? This perception is your body image, or what you think you see in the mirror.

Best of luck to all of the VCE students starting their exams today- here are a few tips that may make things a bit easier..

Exams are nerve-wracking, stomach-churning, earth-shattering events. Everyone who has ever taken an exam remembers the racing pulse, damp palms and sour taste in their mouth right before they turned the paper over and began to work on it. Doesn’t that make you glad that completing secondary school depends upon you successfully completing a number of exams? Don’t worry, while pre-exam jitters are pretty common, and pretty hard to ward off, there are ways for you to become more confident when it comes to taking exams. Prepare well, arrive confidently and settle into your own exam rituals. Before you know it the exam will be over and you’ll be accepting congratulations on your fine results!