Teen

Bully Backfire: Town Rallies Behind Victim of Cruel High School Prank

September 25, 2012

While high school wasn’t the best time of my life (we all have our baggage) I was fortunate to attend a school where most students treated each other with kindness. Every year homecoming and prom royalty were voted on by just about everyone, and it was never a surprise when the court was composed of [...]

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Must Reads For Teens & Young Adults

August 29, 2012

The range of books available for teens may be the widest since Gutenberg invented the printing press. From Harry Potter to Twilight to The Hunger Games, young adult and teen-centric books are an ever-expanding genre. And it’s not just teens who are reading these books. Adults are reading books for teens not only because we [...]

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10 Dorm Room Must-Haves

August 21, 2012

Call me crazy, but what I miss most about my time in college is dorm living. It was my first experience in a space of my own, that I was one hundred percent in charge of. I could make it whatever I wanted, and utilize my space and go about my routine however I wanted. [...]

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School Mandated Pregnancy Tests?

August 9, 2012

Although I didn’t realize it at the time, I was really lucky to be awkward and shy enough in high school that sex was never even close to a possibility, no matter how much us girls talked about it in the back of the soccer bus. I never had to worry about a lot of [...]

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Summer Job Advice for Teens

May 4, 2012

At 23-years-old, I have a unique perspective on the best way to get a job as a teenager. I mean, since I have spent the last few years working in Human Resources. I want to help you because I see a lot of mistakes that are easily corrected.  After all, the competition is steep, and [...]

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“Who Run The World? Girls.” Teen Petitions Seventeen For Real Girls

May 3, 2012

Setting aside the improper grammar of the above quote from Beyonce’s girl-empowerment song, it’s becoming easier to see how girls really are running the world. 14-year-old eighth grader, Julia Bluhm, is proving that girls of any age can spark a revolution out of a wish to see more girls like her in the pages of [...]

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Am I Ugly: Online Body Image Destruction

April 11, 2012

When I was a teenager I knew three things to be true: Smoking cigarettes exponentially increased your cool factor, letting a boy touch your boobs was sure to bring deeper meaning to your relationship, and my thighs were visible from outerspace, possibly other galaxies. A video in health class featuring gratuitous shots of a smoker’s [...]

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My Daughter Moved Out

March 21, 2012

This is a hard post for me to write, because I have spent the last 24 hours in various states of anger, disbelief, utter sadness, on the verge of a breakdown and just plain numb. My daughter, who is 16, moved out. When I was 16, I was no picnic. It makes me shudder now [...]

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My Lips Are Sealed: 18 and Never Been Kissed

February 24, 2012
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I am not your average eighteen-year-old girl. I prefer watching sports over trashy reality television. I am comfortable debating politics, the finer points of baseball, or the specifics of at home hair color. It is quite a contradiction, one that I don’t think guys my age know how to deal with. At least, that’s what [...]

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Are You Ready for College? Are You Sure?

January 24, 2012
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It’s almost February. If you are a Junior in high school, graduating in 2013 and you have registered for or taken the ACT, spoke with your counselor about college, and started to visit colleges that interest you…good for you! You are right on track and doing great! If you are a Senior in high school, [...]

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