On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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This post is dedicated to Peanut, our family puppy.  And Scott Edwards who will not let me get a puppy, but gives me enough love to never really want one!
I was babysitting my family’s puppy peanut last week and spending the day with her reminded of myself when I was a teen—not to say that [...]

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I have recently seen momager business cards, momager coaches to help moms manager their children and momager make-up kits.  Oy, momagers make me nervous.  I think sometimes what they do is very comendable–when it is their kid’s dream.  All too many times mom’s push their kids into show business to fulfill their dreams of being [...]

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I have noticed that there is a huge spectrum of teens online.  There are literally thousands of articles that have been written in the past four years about teens online (I have written some of them!) but they refer to teens online all the same.  This is simply not true, there are many different kinds [...]

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I was in the airport recently and witnessed two unfortunate children say all of the wrong things to their extremely overtired, over-baggaged and overstressed mother.  Print this out, put it on your fridge and add your own in the comments.
The 10 Worst to Say to a Stressed Mom
1) “It’s not that big of a deal”
2) [...]

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