How Many Days Till Christmas Uk?

Please watch the Teens' Speech tommorrow at 3:10pm - Get a true picture of UK youth.?

• “Positive stories{about teenagers/youth] – usually involving reformed offenders – are negligible. Society's retort is not to listen and learn but to punish and criminalise with ever-cruder responses. Yet, while we punish teenagers as adults and expect them to accept adult responsibilities, we afford them few adult rights. Not only are they not allowed to vote, but we rarely even allow them an adult voice. The Teens' Speech, to be aired on Christmas Day on MySpace (just after the Queen at 3.10pm) has listened to the hopes, fears and dreams of hundreds of teenagers over the last 50 days up and down the country. From Christians to Muslims, young adults with Asperger's syndrome, a transgender teenager, rich kids to poor, these are Britain's teenagers shown for once in their diversity rather than as a homogenous, faceless mass. Here we see that teenagers are as afraid as anyone about the state of the world, awash in a sea of fears – of knife crime, violence, racism. A Muslim girl with a headscarf talks about how she wants to be an actress, but that she hasn't seen many actresses with headscarves – her wish is for greater tolerance in the world. Other teens share their worries about whether asbos work, whether there is any point to the age of consent, about the rise of the racist BNP and about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their conclusions, however, are overwhelming positive: Britain, as one boy says, is worth "sticking around for". This Christmas, the voices of teenagers and young people are not just singing carols, but all around us – and they are full of ideas about how to make our world a better, safer place.” Ros Wynne-Jones, The Guardian, The Christmas Teens’ Speech Please watch this, understand teenagers and what we believe in from us, not the media. Get a true picture of UK youth. Thankyou. For more information please visit: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/t%E2%80%A6 http://www.youtube.com/user/barnardosuk :)

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  Why would anyone wish to listen to their vapid angst? They bring most of their problems upon themselves.