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Apple's Steve Jobs recently launched the iPad , displaying the many capabilities that this latest gadget can perform. Reminiscent of an iPhone, only larger, the iPad has practical applications for the gadget loving teens. Even colleges students will fall in love with this latest tech system. The iPad offers a wide variety of features that will delight and make life surfing and studying with more ease. One benefit of the iPad it the ability for organized note taking, especially for those busy High School Juniors and Seniors that are crunching to get their college applications in and keeping their GPA up. It offers one compact place for notes to be organized and offers the ability to, with ease, to share these notes with a classmate through a simple email. Another asset is the calendar feature. Does your teens need to keep track of when homework is due, exams are scheduled, college application deadlines, study dates, social events or even his/her job schedule? iPad offers a si...

Tangerine Times is a great website of articles and insights on parenting! It is definitely one of my favorites. What do teens want???? Can we as parents ever win? Since my kids are young adults now I can say, yes, eventually it does get easier. Patience..... Source: Tangerine Times For parents of teens, it’s an everyday experience to see the rapidly evolving use of technology by teenagers. The shifting can happen whether there is a new, hot product out our not. Many times it is simply teens finding a new application or use for an existing product or service. Marketing firms are scrambling to pin-down this potentially huge market but it’s like hitting a moving target. Well… now you know how it feels to PARENT a teenager!! Tina Wells, chief executive of Buzz Marketing Group, says: “Technology is starting to define what’s cool in a way that fashion used to define what’s cool.” For teens, “as long as it’s technology, it’s what’s hot”. Translation: the geek is not necessarily the un -coo...

Unique Blog Helps Parents Connect with Their Teens through Pop Culture and Technology By: Jennifer Wagner Connect with Our Teens Through Pop Culture and Technology Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology created a unique blog niche that did not yet exist by combining a parenting teens blog with a keeping up with pop culture and technology blog. There are many blogs on the Internet that offer advice to parents on dealing with their teenagers. There are even more blogs on the topics of pop culture, entertainment or technology. However, until recently there have not been any that combine them together to offer parents a fun way of bonding with their teens. Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology has created a unique blog niche that did not yet exist. Where can parents find the answers to these questions and more? What is the best television show to watch with my teenagers? Are there any new book series that can fill the void left by the end of Harr...