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1 Middle Schoolers Engage in Oral Sex During Math Class
Tweens
2 Texting Tweens Medication Reminders
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3 TV Middle School Moments
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4 Tween Trend Is All About the Tresses
Beauty
5 Vanessa Williams Gives Beauty Tips to Her Daughters
Tweens
6 Hidden World of Girls Project Lets Parents Peek Inside
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7 Trendtotting: Graffeeti
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8 Does Pampering Send the Wrong Message?
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9 Seven, Eight and Nine-Year-Old Criminals?
Tweens
10 Fashionology LA For Wee Designers
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11 Do You Encourage Your Child's Own Sense of Style?
Back to School
12 Tweens Can Rock Disney Duds As They Head Back to School
parenting
13 Parent/Child Contracts Put It All Down in Writing
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14 Would You Have Your Son Get the HPV Vaccine?
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15 Wrinkle in Time: Would You Let Your Daughter Get Botox?
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16 Mad Men: Betty Draper Avoids Touchy Subjects, Do You?
From first crushes to moral dilemmas and social hierarchies to embarrassing moments, middle school has enough fodder for seasons worth of TV shows. Some networks have hit gold capitalizing on the situations to which everyone can relate! As your tween heads back to school, check out some of my favorites. Read more
Betty Draper talks to everyone but her daughter about touchy issues. In last night's episode of Mad Men, the tight-lipped mom flipped (and consulted a psychiatrist) when she found out Sally had been exploring her body. Being a parent can put even the most open-minded person into embarrassing situations. When issues arise, do you chat them out with your child or avoid the awkwardness Read more
Girls just wanna grow up and look young! Tweens and teens are getting Botox? According to a recent report, though the FDA has approved the drug for people age 18 to 65, some plastic surgeons are willing to use it on those underage. It said: Looking at these numbers again, Ashton points out that Botox is "tremendously popular when you look at how it breaks down — 0.2 percent of those who had Read more
Dear Diary...lots of girls keep their thoughts under lock and key. It's said that many girls grow up believing they can do anything and then become tweens and lose that confidence. The Hidden World of Girls Project gives parents some insight into the minds of their daughters. NPR's initiative asks women to take a picture of a diary page of their youth and upload it to Flickr in an effort to Read more
Nobody wants to be the parents of the mean kid. In fact, most moms and dads don't think they are going to be! I recently had the chance to chat via phone with Rosalind Wiseman, the author who made "mean girls" a household name when Tina Fey turned her book Queen Bees and Wannabes into a movie starring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan. Wiseman Read more
The middle-school version of ourselves probably had a blurry idea of the adults we would become, but some kids are proving that we knew a lot more about our identities than we thought. With no doubt about who they are attracted to, more and more kids are coming out as gay or bisexual before they make it to high school. An article in this weekend's New York Times Magazine examines the trend and Read more
Lots of mothers have given permission for their daughters to get the Gardasil vaccine, but it may soon be available for their sons. The human papillomavirus (HPV) has become so widespread that many pediatricians are administering the preventative shots (given in three doses within six months) to their patients. According to one report: A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted Read more
Sign on the dotted line please. We sign contracts for our homes, our jobs, and even for our child care providers, but will signing one with our children help keep them in line? Some parents use parent/child contracts to keep the communication path more open, while others see it as a way to keep order in their household. The contract can serve as a visible way to ensure that kids are aware of the Read more
Last week our girl Bella interviewed Ugly Betty beauty, Vanessa Williams. They had a chance to chat about how the singer and actress maintains the good looks Mother Nature gave her and what beauty tips she doles out to her older daughters. When asked how she encourages a good self-image in her youngest child, the mother of four — Melanie, Jillian, Devin and Sasha — said: The youngest one Read more
If you have school aged children, especially tweens, the Mouse has probably taken over your television set and CD player. Now, prepare for The Jonas Brothers and The Wizards of Waverly Place to take over your kiddo's closet. Yesterday, Disney debuted it's back to school line of Ivy League and Boho Chic duds inspired by the popular shows. There are also school supplies and accessories to fill Read more
