Brooke L.

D.A.R.E REPORT

In these past weeks of D.A.R.E , I have enjoyed doing fun
activities and  learning about how to stay safe and
responsible. For example, confident communication,
communicating effectively,effective listening, and
responsibly reporting bullying.

And when we were doing a situation in our D.A.R.E
notebooks ,we used the D.A.R.E decision making model
to help us. Everything was very interesting and I am
looking forward to doing more things in D.A.R.E ‘s
future classes.

What I have learned:

I have learned how much people continue and die from
smoking.There are over 200 harmful chemicals  in
cigarette smoke. Just imagine how much harmful chemicals
there are in the actual cigarette!Some health effects
you could get as a result of smoking are more colds than
usual,upper respiratory problems,yellow teeth, and smelly
breath, etc. There are tons of more consequences you can
get from smoking. Now people are selling vape,which they
are saying is healthier than smoking,but is actually much,
much worse. A fact about vaping is that one juul pod
contains as much nicotine [ a addictive and harmful
chemical] as 20 cigarettes! Smoking is also considered as
air pollution , so you are not just hurting yourself. When
you smoke, you are also hurting our planet!

TOBACCO

Tobacco is just as bad as smoking. More than 450,000
people die from tobacco related causes every year. Many
people sell tobacco to make money, but is is illegal to sell
tobacco to anybody under the age 18. But still, some
teenagers manage to get tobacco...

ALCOHOL

Alcohol can come to many uses,good and bad. Alcohol can
be used for cuts. This is called ,”Alcohol Rubbing Pads”,
but that is not the type of alcohol I’m talking about.The
type of alcohol I’m talking about is in drinks like wine,
beer,whisky,tequila,ect. But it is illegal for people under
the age 21 to drink any alcoholic drinks. I am not saying it
isn’t ok for adults to drink alcohol,but sometimes they
drink to much.If someone drinks to much alcohol,they
would  normally get drunk.When you are drunk,you can’t
think properly. A lot of people do stupid things when they
are drunk. For example,driving.

ALCOHOL 2

When you drive when you are drunk,that is called, drunk
driving. Many people get extremely hurt in car accidents
or die when they drunk drive. There are even commercials
about drunk driving that persuade many people to not
drunk drive.And even though people under the age of 21
are not allowed to drink alcohol,some people under that
age do drink alcohol! Some even get drunk and get hurt or
die! You don’t have to die from alcohol from driving, you
could just drink very large amounts and die,too. But not
a lot of teens drink alcohol.There are 75,000 alcohol
related deaths every year in the U.S.A. The reason why
you are not able to drink alcohol under a certain age is
because kids get very sick and might even die if they
drink alcohol.Alcohol is also very dangerous. For example,
mixing alcohol and drugs is a very large risk someone could
take.There are also health effects from alcohol,too.
Alcohol slows down your brain and your body. You could
also get slow reflexes, memory loss,and more! As you can
see, when you drink alcohol when you are older, be
cautious of the amounts you are drinking.

BEING A GOOD CITIZEN

You could be a good citizen in many ways.You could help
someone with something, stand up for people when they
are being bullied, or telling/reporting a teacher when
someone is being bullied.There is a difference between
tattling and telling,though.Telling is when something
serious is happening that is bothering you or someone
else. For example, someone is bullying you or someone
else everyday and causing you a lot of stress. And
tattling is when you tell a teacher, parent, or guardian
something that doesn't really matter. For example, you
telling your mom your annoying little brother keeps
following you around everywhere. Even though a lot of
people are very brave and do something when someone
is being bullied, there are some people called,
“ a bystander” that see someone being bullied, and
might have empathy for the person being bullied but
doesn't do anything about it.

BULLYING

Bullying is very bad. But recently researchers found out
that bullies often criticize other ,and make others feel
bad about themselves for the reason that the bully is
very insecure and hurting others makes them feel better
about themselves. Bullying is in many forms. For example,
cyber bullying, peer pressure ,ect. Cyber bullying is when
someone bullies you on the internet. People could use many
apps for cyber bullying. For example, Facebook, WhatsApp,
YouTube, Instagram, and many more. Someone could
cyberbully with their profile or anonymously so they
wouldn’t get caught.

Peer pressure is when several people try to force to get do
something you don’t want to do by using pressure. When
people are using peer pressure to get someone to do
something they want that person to do, usually, the people
who are forcing you to do something are very demanding.
And the person those people are bullying are usually unsure
to do what those people want them to do. For example,
either because the person wants to be popular and thinks
they would get more friends if they do whatever those
people want. Or maybe because they are to scared to stand
up for themselves. You could tell if someone is not enjoying
what someone is doing to bother them by nonverbal
communication.That is when you could tell how someone
feels by how they are acting. If you are or know someone
being bullied, you could contact a help network or a parent,
teacher, guardian. Do  NOT   bully anyone because no one
deserves to be bullied. And if you have a chance to help
someone in a risky situation, try to help as much as you
can.

The end.