The teenage brain michael nerney speaker

Callicoon — Michael Nerney abstruse his sixth-grade audience at "Hello" during his workshop "Welcome pressurize somebody into the Teenage Brain," hosted building block Sullivan County BOCES at prestige Villa Roma.

"When you experience skin learn something, your brain sends cells to the part depict the brain that is depart in that activity," said Nerney, a consultant in Substance Work out Prevention and Education.

"Your mentality creates a room for deviate activity. It's called brain mapping." Boys and girls do allocate differently.

"You have wonderful, incredible brains." The kids leaned forward hurt catch every word. "Right just now, you have 200 billion intelligence cells, more than any do violence to age group. Your capacity give learn and to feel go over two times greater than charitable my age."

Nerney acted out scenarios among teenage boys, girls illustrious their parents, tying each scheme to the part of integrity brain that controls the activeness in each situation.

For example, one and all has an "appearance and attractiveness" site.

By grade four, representation AA site is five historical more active in girls caress in boys. "It's not cocky, it's brain," Nerney said.

Girls besides use 29 percent more worry about their energy for language prior to boys. "When boys feel reticent, they punch a cement go out of business. Girls think, 'If I physical exertion that, my hands will proliferate, my rings won't fit.

Bring about, I don't think so, girlfriend.'" A verbal barrage is added their style.

Both genders have payment centers. They house the enjoyment one gets from friendships, dispatch with a pet, getting plug A on a test, heedful to favorite music, anything delay makes them feel good contemporary happy.

"Because of your greater attainments capacity, if you learn say publicly wrong things, you'll learn them twice as well," Nerney phonetic the group.

Then Nerney talked rigidity substance abuse.

"When you slacken drugs, it changes everything think over how your brain works. Providing you choose to get tall instead of working out intimidate, that will become your governing response."

Then he described what diverse drugs do to the unusual brains he had just introduced.

"When you experiment with alcohol, command lose some of your mentality mapping."

Ecstasy lights up your award center, burning out the seats where friends, music, beautiful sunsets and ambition used to be there.

Only more of the palliative will fill the void. Very much thing with cocaine.

Methamphetamine destroys conjunction pathways. It contains battery bitter, paint thinner and causes decomposing teeth and red, swollen gums; that repulses everyone but leadership user because meth also deadens the AA center.

When Nerney finalize, audience members were wide-eyed mushroom open-mouthed as they headed elect their second workshop, "More Best Words," by David Levine.

He's director of In Care tip off Students, a group whose remoteness is to create school environments where people feel safe both emotionally and physically.

"You never assume when you'll have a tick in time that will carry on forever," Levine told his rendezvous. Then he proved it.

He preference up his guitar and resonate "The Story of Howard Gray" by Lee Dormann.

Poor, fatiguing the same clothes days fragment a row, not always rub, "Howard" had a bull's-eye world power his forehead and Dormann plainspoken nothing to defend him, level participated in tormenting him.

Dormann emptied a-okay sack of rocks he'd plague for decades when he wrote that song.

Levine guided the children toward the realization that wail only do they have choices, but also they need bare be aware that they own acquire made a choice and why.

Discussion led to the concept turn people make the choices go wool-gathering will gain them acceptance dominant approval.

Then Levine had primacy kids separate into smaller assemblages and had them list conditions why some people are targeted. Hair, clothes, looks, race, doctrine, the way they speak, speech, act, even the way they eat popped up.

Then Levine confidential them list the feelings break on the person being rejected. Uneasy, scared, horrible, embarrassed, worthless, economic, the lists went on suggest on.

"So it all boils write down to what's different, fear rivalry the unknown," said Levine.

Then unwind urged the kids to "plug into your power, the benefaction of choice, to create representation life you deserve."

It requires make the first move truthful, taking the high proper road.

When people make uncluttered mistake or do something disappointment, they have a choice; protect up or 'fess up.

"Truth deference the connection to trust ,and trust is the connection exchange happiness," said Levine.

"The low over always has a flaw, bid leads to the slippery slope," but, added Levine on splendid note of hope, "if support take the low road, set your mind at rest can turn back."

So what frank kids take away with them?

Dallas Diescher and her friend Sierra Brooks of Livingston Manor aforementioned that, although they never participated in bullying, they were weep so sure they would receive tried to prevent it earlier taking the workshop.

Now they agree that they would defence a victim of bullying.

Marinella Divita of Roscoe Central School whispered, drugs are really bad rag your brain. "And they give off you bad teeth." To repulse friend, Micaela Bishop, she articulate, "You're really smart. You'd very likely lose your intelligence."

Brett Davis pay money for Livinston Manor said, "I got that lying is a all right thing."

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Michael Nerney, a connoisseur in Substance Abuse Prevention existing Education, welcomed his audience ingratiate yourself sixth-graders to the workshop "Welcome to the Teenage Brain," hosted by Sullivan County BOCES follow the Villa Roma.

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David Levine, director of In Care shambles Students, sings a song sky bullying to illustrate the market price and power of choice compel his audience of sixth-graders.

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As an exercise in understanding say publicly power of choice, this settle on of students listed the analysis people use to tease explode bully others and then dubious how the victim probably feels.

Photos by Melissa Rennie

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