On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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Good day wonderful readers, I hope you had a lovely week, enjoy the posts below in case you missed them:
Recession Proofing Your Kids
Can you teach your kids to cut back on the extra’s without freaking them out about money? Here are some easy ways to save.
Best Mom Blog Contest
I am doing a review of all [...]

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Good Morning!
I was inspired this week and wrote a lot of articles, I am going to try to pace myself and was told to limit my articles to one per day = ( so my readers can keep up with me. But, there are some great ones from this week!
Car Rides with Teens
How [...]

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Parent-Kid Contracts: Tips and Samples
Driving contracts, limiting family time, curfews, cell phones, what online services are available to you and how to make your own for your family.
Can Schools Keep Up With Their Net-Gen Students?
I asked readers this week to give me a feedback if they would be interested in a series of posts [...]

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Today, I am participating in the first “Youth Media Blog-a-Thon”. Bloggers from all over the nation are coming together to push kids to get interested in current issues and politics. As you know, I think it is so important for youth to have role models and to see other young people getting informed and being [...]

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