What do you say to a tween when her favorite TV star gets pregnant? That’s the situation facing parents with the news that Brittney Spears’ sister, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn, is pregnant. Jamie Lynn, the star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, is highly popular with the tween crowd. It’s impossible to shield girls from everyday life with it0s sexy commercials and peer pressure to dance like celebrities on MTV. It is possible to provide opportunities for girls to engage in educational, fun and wholesome activities that give them a positive self-image.
Mothers feel their daughter0s are growing up too fast. Girls hear provocative lyrics in songs without fully understanding what the words mean. Fashion magazines encourage outfits many mothers put in the category of 0pre-prostitute0. Schools offer sex-education classes beyond the developmental ability of many nine-year-olds. This is where creative parenting takes effect. After compiling hundreds of surveys from mothers and tweens, for my book, 12 Going on 29: Surviving Your Daughter’s Tween Years, two facts stand out. Mothers overwhelmingly wrote they wished they had taken a more conservative approach when dealing with their tween daughters. “I let her watch videos I didn’t think were appropriate, but all her friends were watching them”, […]

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