Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

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 […]

By Christine -- 2 comments

May 15th, 2008

MySpace Mom Indicted

Lori Drew was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles today.
Who is Lori Drew?
Back in 2006, two thirteen-year-old girls, who had been friends their whole life, had a falling out. Lori Drew, the mother of one of those girls, decided to step in. She, along with a teenage co-worker in her store, […]

By Christine -- 5 comments

April 27th, 2008

Sunday Reading

Have you checked out CNN’s Young People Who Rock blog? It’s pretty awesome what young people can accomplish and how giving they can be.
MySpace can actually help kids. It can “foster adolescent pursuits of true identity, friendship — and validation.” Many teens are finding that MySpace helps them gain self-esteem in the real world.
The Mentor […]

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April 10th, 2008

Is MySpace and YouTube to Blame for Assault?

By now you’ve probably seen the video of a group of teen girls viciously beating a classmate. The attackers videotaped the beating so they could put it on MySpace and YouTube. Police have released three minutes of the tape, but the attack lasted at least 30 minutes. Six girls attacked this teen girl while two […]

By Christine -- 15 comments

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 […]

By char -- 1 comment