Diary Deck Night
On May 1st student peer educators from two California High Schools invited parents and teens from the community to spend a couple of hours together talking about and sharing insights relating to what it feels like to be a teen or the parent of a teen. The goal of the evening was to enhance communication and understanding between the two generations through dialogue and discussion - to share out loud some of the things they don’t know about each other and to spend a couple of hours walking in each other’s shoes.
“Where does it say that life has to be this hard? Do adults have a handbook that tells them exactly how to make my life miserable?” excerpted from diaryproject.com
This event was sponsored by The Diary Project ( www.diaryproject.com), a Bay Area non-profit founded in 1995 as a multimedia forum to give teens a safe, anonymous, non judgmental place to share, explore, question, support each other but most of all to discover that they weren't alone in the often confusing teenage right of passage. The Diary Deck Night takes the dialogue from virtual space on the website LIVE ! Students from both schools worked together for a few months planning the evening. They named it “Talk and Dare to Listen : CHAT ROOM LIVE!
The successful website is a place where teens can anonymously publish their innermost thoughts, opinions, hopes and fears arranged in a number of categories including; body image, self harm, relationships and stress. The site is designed so that readers may offer feedback to the writers. It’s become a safe haven where teens can consult an anonymous peer group when they need to, 24/7, or help solve someone else’s problem .
Diary Deck Night puts to use entries written by parents and teens involved in the project as well as The Diary Deck a recently published collection of 75 flash cards, featuring a teen’s anonymous entry excerpted from the website. Along with each entry the cards offer related questions to promote discussion. It is a resource designed to open new lines of communication between parents, teachers and teens. It offers adults a way to engage in dialogue with teens about difficult topics so they can better understand the issues they confront on a daily basis.
Our hope is that these Diary Deck Nights become a focus for many teens and many communities so that the conversations can begin between generations.
“The Diary Project is an excellent place to come , it’s perfect when all you want to do is explode onto the keyboard getting all your feelings out exactly how you want to.” - excerpted from diaryproject.com
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love -
September 13, 2008 - t - age: 15 - female
Dear Diary, im in loved with a 15 yer old boy and i cnt let him go ...
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little emo girl -
February 17, 2008 - sad emo - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, My friggin family #####es me off! mabe i do need angermanagement. I pushed my mom strait into the wall. I put a whole in the wall. Cussed her out. And im still just a little girl. I wanted to be alone...why can she just grant that one wish? She...
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What. -
December 27, 2007 - Ararhaghagh - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, I'm losing it. Gaining, sure. I'm gaining things. People gain things. I just don't feel it anymore. Everyone around me is fake. Everyone has these strange, pre-decided personalities, fabricated and morphed by their social lives, their childhoods, the influences and people they've come across. But they're all fake....
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Hollow -
September 20, 2007 - jaime''life'' - age: 19 - male
In emtiness she lay beneath the figment of her life. I tried to reach her soul. I condemned her to the hell. The worthless lies are penetrated in the emptyness of dismay. Still I lay awake for the peace is beyond truth. I utter words of ravished guit. It was him...
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How Come? -
November 2, 2006 - astrastella12 - age: 14 - female
How? How is it that I'm the only person at my school who isn't constantly babbling about whatever crosses my mind? How is it that everyone thinks everybody has enough money to go to a bunch of fancy stores for clothes? And why does it matter? How come...
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about death penalty -
September 13, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
( My diary, i want eat hot vegetables soup. but i must write English diary enough. because, i want show you enough.) There is many sins that you might happend. but it's not big deal that you might happend. but, you can think about the prisonel who killed...
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u -
September 10, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, As i feel the cold blade of hate moving across my wrist i cant help but remember what happened All i remember is you and those piercing words the ones that said how much you hated me For what i dont know cause i never did anything but...
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So yesterday..¡Ú -
September 5, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, 2006, 9.5 I love pop song. and i'd like listen it very much, so conclusion is.. i like it! and my diary, it's may free to me. it's sing to me like free. and, it's seem so yesterday to me. my life is tired everyday. but my life is...
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So tired today -
September 1, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
Today, I have a very busy day. i am going to school, and i have very long time in there. i'm meet my friend, and i'm study in there. but it's very hot and not good today. but i must good at my outward appearance. because when i feel,...
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hello, chat. -
August 25, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, i have a chat time today. the chat is begin in ya-hoo, and i have many world-friend. Vacation started soon but I don't want to do all the homework in one day like summer vacation that I did so I started earlier this time. Today, I stayed home and...
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A dispute -
June 8, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
My lovely diary¢À Hello you little one. i have something to tell you. today, i have a dispute time in my writing class. and i think i grow so little, little at that time. but, i have my own receptacle. teacher always call me "blurblur(this is not my...
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sososo -
June 6, 2006 - Star twinkle - age: 14 - female
Dear Diary, oh, what can i do for you? have special pet friends. They are not big like horses. They are not slow like turtles. They are not hairy like hamsters. They do not bark like dogs. They do not scratch...
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Is it true? -
February 15, 2006 - Liliac - age: 17 - female
Dear Diary, Is this true, Is this really the way life is, Where it's politically proclaimed that child molesting is O.K., as long as you have a high social status? That your life doesn't matter, As long as your deamed not good enough by others. And your parents ignore you, pretend...
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Imagination. -
January 7, 2006 - respice finem - age: 16 - female
Dear Diary, i didnt wanna admit this anywhere especially not in my xanga because i was embarresed i guess .... maybe because i know noone knows me here . oh well i sometimes dream about stuff which i know shall never happen to me or if it will , its too...
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