Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

November 23rd, 2008

Sunday Reading

CNN offers an age-by-age guide on why kids lie. To deal with your lying child set a good example and talk about lying can ruin your credibility.
Parents can help a teen with their body image issues by understanding, reassuring, explaining, and modeling.
Baby Boomers are raising a smug generation and it may be setting teens up […]

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November 9th, 2008

Sunday Reading

HPV caused 25,000 cases of cancer in the United States between 1998 and 2003, including anal and mouth cancers.
More and more kids are medicated today.
Twinkies are the latest in 100-calorie packs.
Bullies get pleasure out of seeing others in pain. That’s disturbing.
There is yet another study showing a link between teen aggression and video games.
An Idaho […]

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September 17th, 2008

Dating An Older Boy

In today’s celebrity gossip is news that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus is [allegedly] dating a 20-year-old model and aspiring country singer. Apparently they met when he was competing on Nashville Star (which is hosted by Billy Ray). Is that ok? Would you let your 15-year-old daughter date a 20-year-old man?
When I was fifteen I began dating […]

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September 8th, 2008

More Miley Drama - Love Triangles and Wiki Hoaxes

Teen sensation Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, is dealing with a double whammy of drama these days!
There is the Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus love triangle drama that seems to be communicated via their bubble gum pop songs. Her summer hit, 7 Things, is supposedly about Nick Jonas. The Jonas Brothers hit “Sorry” from […]

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July 29th, 2008

Miley Cryus To Promote Safe Sex

I was watching the national news last night when I heard a story about how Lifestyles Condoms offered Miley Cyrus one million dollars to be their spokesperson. That’s right, a company that makes condoms claims they asked a 15-year-old girl to represent them. Miley’s reps says they have not received such an offer and would […]

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May 4th, 2008

Sunday Reading

Everybody had something to say about the Vanity Fair photo shoot of Miley Cryus. Mir covered it for BlogHer. Jamie Lee Curtis gave her opinions at The Huffington Post. And Dr. Robyn Silverman had a series of posts on the subject.
The best way to avoid drugs is to not avoid them, but instead to […]

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April 29th, 2008

Is Miley Cyrus a Bad Girl?

Have you heard about Mileygate? For those two people who haven’t had a chance to watch the news or visit CNN online in the last few days, fifteen-year-old Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana) appears topless (albeit covered with a big blanket) in the June edition of Vanity Fair. There’s been quite an uproar about it. […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Miley Cyrus May Star in All American Girl

Meg Cabot’s very popular teen book, All-American Girl, may be coming to the big screen afterall, and it is rumored that Miley Cyrus may play the lead role of Samantha Madison.
Disney already has plans for the production of a movie version of Miley’s hit show “Hannah Montana” and it looks like All-American Girl will follow […]

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December 13th, 2007

Miley Cyrus Adds New Concert Dates

Hannah Montana fans will have 14 new opportunities to see their favorite teen sensation in concert according to a CNN report. Tickets for the new concert dates will go on sale Saturday, December 15. Sister act, Aly & AJ, will be performing at some of the new concert dates.

January 11 - Detroit
January 13 - Milwaukee
January […]

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December 12th, 2007

Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers Will Help Dick Clark Ring in the New Year

According to US Magazine, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and Carrie Underwood will join Dick Clark in New York’s Times Square for this year’s New Years Rockin’  Eve celebration. The three acts will perform live on Monday, December 31 on ABC.
Other acts such as Fergie, Akon, and Natasha Bedingfield will beam in from Hollywood.
Which songs […]

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