Ah, good ole Texas. Always a great place for scandals like this one. So here’s what happened: A senior named Marche Taylor wore a really skimpy dress and was denied entrance to her prom based on it. And yes, it is really, really skimpy. So I get where the prom sponsor [...]
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The Education of Shelby Knox
I am going to see a film today called The Education of Shelby Knox. I’m looking forward to it - it looks like a great movie - but it’s particularly exciting because Shelby Knox herself will actually be there! Here’s a short description from IMDB:
A 15-year-old girl’s transformation from conservative Southern Baptist to liberal Christian [...]
Parenting during Spring Break
Every March there are op-ed pieces, well researched articles, numerous blog posts, and general conversation about the horror that Spring Break has become. These articles describe a picture of heavy drinking and outrageous sexual extravagance by young women for the viewing pleasure (and later the direct physical pleasure) of young men.
This year, the L.A. [...]
Back from SXSW - and wiped!
Wow! I must say, I did not think that SXSW would be what it was. Thanks so much to Wendy for taking the reigns while I was away!
SXSW was:
First: an amazing networking experience. I think my favorite online-sex-blogger connection was with Lux Alptraum. Lux writes Boinkology - a blog all about [...]
Sex education and the young ones
Generally children under 9-years-old ask questions about (1) things they have heard and seen grown-ups talking about and doing and (2) things their friends have heard and seen grown-ups talking about and doing. So the long and short of it, if the child is asking, as the adult you have to answer because the [...]
Dove Self Esteem Campaign
Dove has launched a major self-esteem campaign, aimed at reaching 5 million young women by 2010. I’ve posted two of the commercials created by this campaign (Evolution and Onslaught).
The goals of Dove’s campaign are good:
The Dove Self-Esteem Fund (DSEF) was established to raise the self-esteem of girls and young women to make them [...]
My review of Juno
I loved Juno. I thought it was a smart, interesting, and real portrayal of teenage pregnancy. What struck me as surprising was that Juno is really a movie for adults about a teenager. It’s more common to see movies about teenagers for teenagers.
There are plenty of positive, even rave reviews of Juno. Mostly the praise centers around fully-formed portrayals of smart [...]
Britney Spears’s sister’s teenage pregnancy
So Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. At sixteen. She announced this apparently news-worthy information through OK! Magazine, and everyone from the Huffington Post to MTV feels compelled to weigh in on this one. So, I figured, why not me too? I mean, this is clearly the biggest teenage sex scandal of [...]
Making the holidays
A friend has a teenage son. She was trying to figure out something to make him for Christmas. Of course, this is a very individual thing, and different teenagers like different kinds of things. But here are some ideas of things to make for teenagers:
food (cookies, especially sugar cookies cut and decorated to [...]
My voice, teen voices
Today, I have no voice. Literally. We’re passing a little cold around our house, and it seems to have hit me the worst. (Hence the late post today - sorry about that!) So yesterday afternoon as I was teaching my second class of the day, my voice disintegrated into nothing. [...]
