Is your town taking as many safety measures as they can to help prevent many of the tragedies that occur on prom night? Many events happen during prom and most are not good ones! Prom night is associated with teens drinking, driving and having sex sometimes for the first time. All of these only lead to more [...]

Please see the first 3 choices articles for more information on this series. Book 4 in the “Scenarios Series” by Nicole O’Dell entitled “Making Waves”, reflects once again on decision making for our teens.  In this book we meet Kate who is an excellent swimmer and joins the school team. Keeping up with all her practices, church [...]

Please see the first 2 choices articles for more information on this series. Book 3 in the “Scenarios Series” by Nicole O’Dell entitled “Magna”, reflects once again on decision making for our teens.  In this book we meet Molly a very sweet girl and her two friends Jes and Sara. In this book they decide [...]

We all know what peer pressure is and at one point in time I think we have all felt this.   In book 2 by Nicole O’Dell we are faced with the realities of what can happen if you choose to take that path to no good.  Book 2 in the Scenarios series is called [...]

I had the pleasure of reading book 1 in a soon to be 4 book series of Nicole O’Dells.  It actually will be more than 4 as time goes on, but books 3 and 4 are soon to be released.  Each book is an interactive book and you the reader get to choose what way [...]

I am VERY EXCITED to announce that Nicole O’Dell has generously offered to give away an autographed copy of each book, I will be writing about!  After I have reviewed her 4 book series to date, as more will be released in the future, I will be interviewing Nicole, at which time there will be a bonus [...]

I had the pleasure of interviewing author Annie Fox and asked her some questions regarding teen pregnancy. Hope you were able to make our Skype chat it was very informative.  If you had a question that was not asked or answered in either the interview or on skype if you were there when we ran out [...]

“I’d love to invite you to join me and Annie Fox online advisor and author of the new Middle School Confidential series, in a dynamic, live Q&A session on Skype: “Why 21st Century Kids Need 21st Century Parenting,” next Thursday February 25, 2010 at 5 pm PST (8 pm ET). Please RSVP with your skype [...]

Please take a moment and vote for your biggest concern with your teen right now.  I will take the most requested one and discuss your concerns. If you have time in the reply section below, please tell me what is going on, what is the problem your dealing with, so I can address it directly. Thanks! [...]

We keep hearing about teen pregnancy issues. With the television show “Secret Life of the American Teenager,” the new upcoming movie January 23, 2010 on Lifetime Television called “The Pregnancy Pact” and Barbara Delinsky’s newly released book called “Not My Daughter.”  Each of the aforementioned deal with teen pregnancy and the problems faced, not only [...]