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Jennifer Wagner has an exciting and up-to-date/tech Blog that keeps you informed about today's teens and what they are up to. Her interview with Vanessa Van Petten is fantastic! Vanessa is a teen author and has an excellent website called Radical Parenting ! Source: Jennifer Wagner - Connect with Your Teens Through Pop Culture and Technology Today you are being treated to a guest post by Vanessa Van Petten, the teen author of the parenting book “You’re Grounded!” She writes a parenting blog, Radical Parenting , with 12 other teen writers from the kid's perspective to help parents. Her work as a young family peacemaker have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, CNN, Fox News, CBS Miami and much more! 6 Ways to Bond With Your Teen or Tween Even though I am not a parent, I know how hard it can be to get kids—especially angsty teens to connect and open up to parents. Writing a parenting blog from a teen’s perspective has forced me to look back at my own teen year...

Source: Jennifer Wagner During the past six months or so, the word Sexting has became part of our daily language. The media use it constantly. Even parents that don't have teens are up in arms about it. New technologies have their price. I want to talk about some of the bigger issues involved with Sexting:What exactly is it?According to the youth written Urban Dictionary : "the act of text messaging someone in the hopes of having a sexual encounter with them later; initially casual, transitioning into highlysuggestive and even sexually explicit". Sexting doesn't necessarily mean pictures and are very often not involved. Although sending provacative photos has become the biggest issue, it is not that common.Legal IssuesRecently the question has come up as to whether minors, sending nude pictures to other minors, should be prosecuted under child pornography laws. Many states are grappling over this issue right now. I think there are two different issues. If a teen s...