Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

But he puts even more responsibility on churches. “Go find a Christian church that will be Christian,” he said. He talked about a community that had asked him to speak. LeClerc “We, our generation, give our kids and grandkids more than we ever had. They don’t pay rent. They don’t buy their stuff. They have the highest disposable income of any group. And they have become a target market for advertisers, starting at 11. We don’t do anything about it. We raise our kids and our grandkids on TV. Kids have televisions and computers in their rooms. We took our kids’ minds and gave them away. Something is wrong when we let technology abscond with the the role of parents. Take a stand. Do something,” Serge LeClerc, MLA, author, motivational speaker and former drug lord told Foam Lake’s adults following a potluck supper on January 8.

The end result, LeClerc said, is that our kids are making some seriously wrong, life-threatening choices. (more…)

Ethyl alcohol’ or ‘ethanol’ is the principle ‘chemical’ within an alcohol drink that causes the impact upon the body and brain to produce the feeling of being ‘drunk’, and which causes the damage to the brain of a developing foetus within the mother’s womb. It is this chemical/poison which the European throughout thousands of years began to develop a resistance to which has limited the damage to their bodies, and to their off-spring who now occupy North America. Nonetheless, the damage we see today to a person’s body as the result of chronic drinking is startling but would be far greater if those bodies did not develop some ‘adaption factor’ through genetic strengthening of the body by inter-generational usage.

On this note, insert the Aboriginal body which never consumed alcohol until the European came to North America. They had no immune system build up to the ethanol; much as they had no immune system familiarity to the ‘Small Pox’ or ‘Flu’ virus which proceeded to decimate the First nation population in epidemic like fashion within short order. They of course, after exposure to the virus’s, did build a resistance to them within their immune system similar to the European who brought it with them. Unfortunately, the same can not be said to the alcohol epidemic now running plague like throughout the First Nations of North America as thousands of years will be needed to build the same resistance to the poison within alcohol – and the damage to the Aboriginal body is horrendous. (more…)

In my last chapter of my blog, I was speaking to the destructive influence of media, advertisements and violence, upon our teenagers. Let me explain how it is done.

Allow me to bring you back to a yesteryear – in your own life of growth and development. Let me fellows bring you to the Saturday evening bath, when after the water turned cold and you emerged wrinkled as a prune, you wiped the steam from the mirror to review yourself and your body from the previous week. And at the grand age of 13 years, you would stand there and bring your arms up in a pose, then flex those mighty biceps and upon close review, wonder when they would actually begin to grow larger than your sister’s? You would turn this way and that, looking closely at your upper lip to see if anything had sprouted during the previous week, check underneath your armpits for any growth, and check whether any pubic hairs had erupted in the movement towards manhood. You wondered whether your thighs would ever become larger than your knees. More importantly, you wondered as young boys do when one begins to move towards the next phase of developmental life cycle, whether you were smart enough, handsome enough, and manly enough – whether girls would like you, find you attractive, would you fit in with the other guys and would they find you cool. Would you be popular and successful…..would you be happy. (more…)

As we approach Christmas and a New Year, thought that I would begin to write over the next while about the Reality Facing Modern Day Youth and their Parents. Hope you join me weekly for each installment and please share the blog site with friends, co-workers and family.

I often hear parents say to their kids, “I know what you are going through, I was your age once.” Well quite frankly, that’s not quite correct as the times have change – the world is a much different place in say just 25 years – the pressures and challenges facing our young people are so vastly different from the society – and its fabric – we grew up in. Let me tell you how I know that – well simply by the stats:

Alcohol and alcohol related deaths are the number one killer of our young people. While we have the most informed and educated group of young people about alcohol – just from MADD and SADD and public health information for instance – we still have the heaviest drinking group of young people in the history of our country and province – 79% will have ‘binge drunk’ at least 3 times before they turn 17 years of age (drinking one drink directly after another until they pass out or are totally blasted) often resulting in serious biological, physical damage or death caused by ‘alcohol poisoning’. It is opinionated that very few, if any, young person in our society today will graduate from high school without being personally effected by the death of another young person caused by alcohol. (more…)