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. [...]

[Read more →]

I clean out a lot of backpacks.  One of the first things I do with new clients is to sit down on their bedroom floor and dump out all of their notebooks, papers, half-eaten pencils and papers (one time there was a bagel that was so green and hard it should have been biochemical waste).
I [...]

[Read more →]

Every desk/study area needs to have the following supplies.  The High School and Middle School Supplies are think are different than elementary school back to school shopping trips.
This is the list I go through with my clients:
The Basics
-Pens
-Pencils
-Eraser
-Pencil Sharpener (if you have those kinds of pencils)
-Lead (if you have those kinds of pencils)
-Correction fluid or [...]

[Read more →]

Too many blogs too little time.
Limitless friending, social networks and forum.
40 newsletters.
These were a few of my alternate titles for this post.  Information overload seems to be the name of the game for so many of my clients and readers and I wanted to write a post for everyone, but especially for parents to teach [...]

[Read more →]

For some reason my generation thinks they are not a complete person if they are not multitasking.  One of the problems with this is it is much harder to be effective at what you are doing if you are doing multiple things at once.
I should admit that I am a serious multitasker–not always a proud [...]

[Read more →]