Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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This guest post is by Greg Burton who is a lifelong athlete and founder of Zoose an Internet sports portal that brings every athlete’s sports world within reach through the Internet.
I did NOT grow up in a sporting family. My folks not only did not exercise, but they were against me and my two sisters [...]

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“Did you get a nose job?”
said one of my 12 year-old female clients. After I got over the shock of the question, I explained that, no, this is my real nose, and ‘why do you ask?—Does it look fake!!??” “No,” she countered, “everyone gets surgery, so I just assumed you had.”
It is true [...]

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As many of my readers know I mentor teens privately in Los Angeles and via web cam and phone all over the world.
I have found that mentoring and coaching has been extremely rewarding for my clients (and for me!) because it offers teens, tweens and kids one on one time with an older (but still [...]

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It is so cool to be green…and I do not mean envious.
My generation of young people have grasped onto the green movement, slapped on sustainable t-shirts, made rally posters on recycled paper and rode our bikes to work yelling at all of the smog producing, gas guzzling drivers. Well, we aren’t all this proud, [...]

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