Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

August 12th, 2008

Obama Reaches Out to Young People

20% of the voters last year were between the ages of 18 and 29 and yet the youth vote is often ignored by politicians. As Whitney Houston said in the 80’s, the children are our future so why aren’t politicians trying harder to reach young Americans?
Well one of the presidential candidates has gone high tech […]

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July 1st, 2008

Online Gossip

When we were kids we gossiped the old fashioned way. We passed notes or whispered in the hallway between class. We huddled in the girl’s bathroom or talked to our friends on the phone for hours every night.
Today gossip has gone high tech. There’s no need to pass notes when teens can just text each […]

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April 13th, 2008

Sunday Reading

There is an Undies Contest to promote safe sex. You can design your own underwear and win cash.
Should you use a DriveCam in your teenagers car? On one hand you can keep track of them and make sure they are safe. On the other hand they don’t really have their privacy.
How knowledgeable are you about […]

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July 15th, 2007

Speedlinking - 07/15/07

I normally don’t do a lot of speedlinking, but there are quite a few really good topics being discussed on some of my favorite sites right now and I wanted to share them with you.

Somehow I missed this well done post from Linda Moran on the HPV vaccine.  Angela also makes some important points in […]

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