On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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You see this picture?
I went over to one of my client’s houses (he is a precocious, intelligent and witty 15 year-old) and saw him writing with this.
“What IS that? Is that a highlighter? Is that a pen?”
“It’s a pen in a highlighter case.  I took apart my highlighter and put in the pen cartridge”
“But, why?”
“Why [...]

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Hi!
I know a lot of people are going through a really rough time right now with the economy the way it is.  I have had some inquiries recently about my Mom Blog Makeover Classes and Parent Blogging 101 teleclasses asking if I could run them again, but they would like me to:
1) Lessen the expense
2) [...]

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I get a lot of concerned parents who are worried that their ‘techie’ kid will not have anything ‘impressive’ on their college applications.  Or that they spend so much time on the computer or online, that they never get any human interaction.  Here are some ideas for a kid who loves technology and you want [...]

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I have noticed that there is a huge spectrum of teens online.  There are literally thousands of articles that have been written in the past four years about teens online (I have written some of them!) but they refer to teens online all the same.  This is simply not true, there are many different kinds [...]

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