On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

Welcome to a secret view into the world of the net-generation. I love writing to you (maybe a little too much) so enjoy, stick around and be sure to tell me what you think…and, duh, get on my email list quick! (on the right, “subscribe via email”). Or subscribe to my RSS feed. [...]

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‘The backpack’ is a dream for a packrat.  I seem to remember standing at my locker looking at my assignment sheets for twenty minutes, and then just deciding…”ughh, I’ll just take home everything, just in case.”
In Sophomore year, my backpack had babies, or found its long lost cousins.  I could no longer fit all of [...]

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I figured I would include this post in my growing up online series: Workshop Presentation where I give parents and kids a really basic explanation of teens and the Internet from a younger perspective.
If you do not know what RSS is, you are probably irritated that I constantly ask you to sign up for [...]

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I recently discovered Sweet and Sassy.com and, was at first, a little horrified to see (what looks like 5 year-old) girls putting on lots of make-up, celebrating expensive clothes and fashion–materialism at its greatest! Sweet and Sassy is a salon that hosts birthday parties for girls. It seems that teen, tween and really young girls [...]

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It has been reported that Mischa Barton has been arrested in West Hollywood for driving recklessly,  without a license, under the influence of alcohol AND for possession of marijuana.
Wow, just when I thought there could be no more starlets who would set a bad example… This is something that all the teens are talking about [...]

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