On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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Shannon is a 16 year old from Maryland. She enjoys writing, is pro recycling, and loves the Jonas Brothers.
1. Being black means you are “ghetto”
2. If you are black and you don’t act “ghetto”, that means you act like a “white girl/guy”
3.Wearing dark make-up means you are gothic
4. If you are athletic that means you [...]

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Shannon is a 16 year old from Maryland. She enjoys writing, is pro recycling, and loves the Jonas Brothers.

I can not believe that school is already back in full swing! Waking up at the crack of dawn, homework at lunchtime, procrastination—all those things I took a break from over the summer are back and in full [...]

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Shannon is a 16 year old from Maryland. She enjoys writing, is pro recycling, and loves the Jonas Brothers

About a week ago I saw an article about college presidents who were seeking to lower the drinking from twenty one to eighteen. After reading it, I started thinking about all the possible outcomes if they did decide to drop [...]

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One of our new teen writers: Sarah is a 16 year old girl from Connecticut. She enjoys singing, dancing, and one day would like to be a teen fiction author.

Here’s a list of items most teens would not want you to know:

We secretly have one cartoon/movie/show/game/stuffed animal that we should have grown out of but [...]

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