May 18th, 2011 02:12pm

Talking puberty with tweens

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It can be the most embarassing of conversations. Or it can be some of the best.

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May 11th, 2011 10:18am

Middle School Madness

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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

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March 23rd, 2011 08:44am

Push-up bikinis for tweens

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Are push-up bikini tops encouraging sexuality in tweens? Or are they allowing tweens to feel more confident in their bodies?

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July 21st, 2010 03:34pm

The SEX talk

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It’s not the most comfortable of talks (this is apparently so when MY children are involved). But it’s the most necessary. (read the article…)

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February 28th, 2010 09:06pm

Texting Queen

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My daughter sat on the couch, her phone never leaving her side. Every now and then it would vibrate. Like clockwork, she would flip it open, read it, then send back a quick reply. This wasn’t just going on for a short time, this had been going on all day long. I asked her who she was texting, and after many retorts of how little business it was of mine, she finally told me it was a boy at her school. The fact that she was texting a boy was not alarming. Most of her friends are guys, and one of her guy friends and her texted each other often. Most of their texts consisted of “Sup”, or “LOL”, or “My brother’s a dweeb”. Nothing to write home about. And definitely nothing that raised my eyebrows (except to roll my eyes at how lame it was). But this was different, this was a boy I had never heard of. And with the way they were texting each other for hours on end, it was obvious that this was not just some friend.

This had to be a boyfriend. (more…)

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