Tag: teens
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26 Days until ROAM! Win & Read it First!
Happy Thursday! I can’t believe it’s only 26 days until ROAM finally hits bookstores! It feels like it’s taken forever for this day to come, and yet it also feels like the clock is dragging! To make this time go by a little faster, I’m going to be posting a little more frequently between now […]
C.H. Armstrong
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WINNER TAKE ALL (Book Review)
WINNER TAKE ALL — an exceptional read with tough-topics writing reminiscent of Judy Blume.
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WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI (Book Review)
There’s simply nothing NOT to love about WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI
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Banned Books Week Day 5: Judy Blume
“I went to a couple of places two years ago and I got seven hundred and something hate-mail warnings – ‘We know where you are going to be and we’ll be there waiting for you’, that sort of thing,” says Blume.
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Protecting Our Children: The Dangers of Social Media
Three teens are easily lured into meeting an adult man after meeting thru social media. How to protect your kids!
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Parents Who Fail to Teach Respect, Fail Us All
Dear Readers, Today’s blog is completely different from my normal blogging style. Usually I try to bring you the witty day-to-day goings on of my family and, specifically, with my children. But I saw a story on The Today Show this morning that has me so angry that I can’t seem to think past it. […]
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A 21st Century Wilma and Betty
If you’ve ever been around teens, you know that – once they hit about age 14 or 15 – the only thing on their minds is what kind of car they’re going to get. They start scoping out the car lots in their early teens and some of them even start making […]
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Mastering the Art of Reverse Psychology and Occasional Manipulation
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower As the mother of two children, I’ve learned over the years the importance of manipulation. Now, don’t start frowning…if you’re a parent, you know you’ve done it. Call it reverse psychology or […]
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Holiday Flashback!
Dear Readers: It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and – like many of the rest of you – I’ve decided to take the day off. But never fear…I won’t leave you high and dry. Today’s post is a flash back to my very first blog on this site. This article debuted on my blog for the first […]
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Throw Mommy Under the Bus!
I’m not entirely sure why or how, but my children learned at a very early age that it’s fun to harass me. That is to say that they’re always saying and doing things to give me a hard time, usually just for laughs or to see my reaction. I’m not sure exactly where they learned […]
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