by Voices for Virtue | Jun 3, 2018 | Blog
Peer pressure became a buzzword when I was in middle and high school. And the stuff is powerful! How many times have we done something simply because we saw our friends doing it? I know there are more than one situation I regretted because I thought I would be cool in...
by Voices for Virtue | May 10, 2018 | Blog
“The name’s Kuzco. Emperor Kuzco.” Emperor Kuzco from Disney’s “The Emperor’s New Groove” (arguably one of the greatest cartoon movies known to man) is exactly the kind of friend you don’t want to be, at least pre-transformation. He epitomizes selfishness. He...
by Voices for Virtue | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
We’ve all heard it. The monotone “bleep” noise when someone on the TV let’s a swear leak out. Sometimes it is followed by a laugh track sound bit which triggers the audience to search the dialogue for the joke. Sometimes it is pretty tempting to laugh at it, even...
by Voices for Virtue | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
Picture this. You finally get to have some time with your BFF after school all day. You need to talk to them… BAD. Stress is building, school is the worst, and you just need to vent to someone. You meet up, you say, “Man, I really need to talk to you.” They say,...
by Voices for Virtue | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog
Help your friends appreciate their bodies. Body shame is EVERYWHERE. We are constantly bombarded with messages of the shape our bodies should be, the way our faces should look, the right way to style our hair, etc., etc., etc. These messages are really damaging...
by Voices for Virtue | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog
We make sexual decisions every day. We decide not to look at pornography, we decide to wait to have sex until marriage, these are pretty obvious. But there are a lot of decisions that have to do with sexuality that aren’t so clear cut. For example, what kind of...
