On Youth and 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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I met Nicci a few weeks ago and asked her to write this guest post because I love what she does and her blog and think it is important for parents to think about whether you have a 7 year-old (playing dress-up) or an 18 year-old going to prom.
When your tween and early teen daughters [...]

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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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How can we get teens to pay attention and realize that teen pregnancy is a serious issue? Recently, when I brought up teen pregnancy with my teen friends and mentoree couples–they laughed!
I wanted to direct my parent reader’s attention to the issues/myths/frightening opinions my teens have (and I had when I was in High [...]

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