Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

July 7th, 2008

The Baby Borrowers

I wasn’t planning on watching The Baby Borrowers. Not because I thought it was stupid premise for a show or because I felt like children were being exploited. No, I wasn’t planning on watching just because I don’t have time. It’s opposite So You Think You Can Dance and I’m not missing out on my […]

By Christine -- 3 comments

June 20th, 2008

Is Hollywood to Blame for the Pregnancy Pact?

Is Hollywood to blame for teen pregnancy? Many people think so as the news of a pregnancy pact at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts spreads. Seventeen girls at the school are pregnant this year. That’s four times as many as last year. The school started to get suspicious when many girls began to come in […]

By Christine -- 5 comments

March 27th, 2008

Helping Teens Through a Pregnancy

Yesterday I talked about a mom who I believe did not handle the news of her daughter’s pregnancy very well. Cheryl even admitted she could have handled it better when she found out her fifteen-year-old daughter, Justine was pregnant. I don’t know the whole story. We only saw glimpses of their life and the whole […]

By Christine -- 5 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