Wow! I learn something new every day. This is very important for those of you with teenagers, whether they are your children or your students. Please share this post. Thanks Torey!
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Teens are great with coming up with pointless and sometimes dangerous fads that prove to us adults that their brains still aren’t fully developed.
Thanks to the internet, those fads spread like wild fire, putting more and more teens in danger.
Remember The Cinnamon Challenge? If you have no idea what I am talking about, it’s a “game” where you are supposed to put a spoon full of ground cinnamon in your mouth and attempt to swallow it without anything else to help wash it down.
The challenge is pretty much impossible.
There are plenty of YouTube videos demonstrating the challenge with the results usually ending with someone gagging, vomiting, coughing and/or choking.
Why this may sound stupid to us with fully developed brains, thousands of teens have taken this challenge with some ending up in the hospital.
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there were…
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