Some people may not know this, but here in our little town we have a teen pregnancy prevention clinic. I learned about it because my older sister got pregnant in her last year of high school.

She is a teen mother with 2 kids. Yes she has a house and a good fiancée. If she would have been smart and went to one of the clinics to be put on some kind of birth control, she would have been able to make her dream come true. In owning her own business in child daycare.

What I am trying to say is if you know that you are going to be sexually active or think you might become sexually active, then go to one of these places. Take care of your self, and be smart.

If you are worried that your parents are going to find out they will only find out if you tell them because these places are fully confidential. Or if you are worried about not being able to pay, it is free. Yes FREE! Like I said there is one here in Lincoln right up the street from Lincoln High, by where the Placer Video store was. All you have to do is call and make an appointment with the female doctor.

Yes it might be scary when you first go in there and a lot is running through your mind, but I can tell you when it is all over you feel much better because you are taking responsibility for your own actions. They also test for STDs and all kinds of sexually transmitted diseases.

There are hundreds of teenagers becoming teen parents each year, I’m not trying to sound like one of the adds that are out there but it is true. So please take my advice and go get an appointment. The school has to let you out of school to go to your appointment if it’s during school hours, but when you leave the school you need the card that has the time and date of your appointment so they know that that is where you are really going. If you called and made the appointment over the phone then you tell the office that you will bring a note from the doctor saying that you were