Related: Friday Night Football Killed Teen Girl
And I'll never forget Elizabeth Mun -- even if the Globe does!
"A mother's message, in aftermath of tragedy; Warns teens of dangers of drinking" by Michele Morgan Bolton, Globe Correspondent | May 19, 2009
Kathi Meyer agonizes over life's irreversible tragedies, knowing how the simplest things have a profound effect on fate. Like her regret that she didn't check her 17-year-old's Facebook page so she could have seen how much her daughter was hiding her drinking with friends.
Hiding it on Facebook?
Or the wish that parents who saw Taylor Meyer drunk in the bleachers of King Philip Regional High School's Oct. 17 homecoming game had picked up the phone to call Meyer then, not days later, when her only daughter was already dead after another drinking party.
Yeah, WTF?
(For my view on Friday night football, see: F*** Friday Night Football)
Timing and awareness are everything, Meyer has learned. Since January, Meyer has told her story at 15 schools, from Rockport to Franklin, North Attleborough to Canton. Among her five remaining engagements is a speech at Newton South High School today.
"I could have sat in my shell and had nothing good come from this," she said in an interview. "But Taylor wouldn't want that."
Her message to parents: Check up on your children. Find out what they are saying to each other on Facebook, where they are going, when they will be home.
And LOVE THEM with ALL YOUR HEART!!!!!!
Her message to young people: Watch each other's back. Don't let a friend wander off from a party or leave with a drunken friend....
That's GREAT ADVICE!
You should LISTEN to your MOTHERS, kids!!!!!!
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