Column Analysis #1

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-banks-teen-suicide-20111115,0,3179218,full.column
Sandy Banks, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, talks about the worries parents have in today's day and  age, especially after the deaths of 3 students at a high school in California. 2 of these students committed suicide and 1 died of alcohol poisoning, leaving many families, friends, and one large student body behind to grieve. Banks talks mainly about a meeting the parents had with counselors of Aguora High School (the school of the 3 students who recently died) that answered questions about how to stop or discipline behaviors such as drinking or doing drugs or to recognize when your child truly needs help. She "push[es] parents toward vigilance" trying to get them to pay attention to what is really going on in their children's lives instead of just brushing it aside. She also includes questions parents asked at the counselor meeting that parents around the world are probably asking such as "How do you clamp down on your kids without making them hate you for it?" She answered questions like this to help parents help their teenagers through this difficult time in their lives.