Valerie Grison Blog

Six things your teen/tween is learning from you (via NewsWorks) Raising a teen or tween can make you feel as though their friends are the only people they ever pay attention to, but that simply isn’t the case. While friends have an enormous impact during these years, parents do too. And like it or not, […]

  Teen literature has seen a great boom in recent years. This is an encouraging trend for parents and educators. It is not merely a passing fad, but appears not only to be holding its own, but has become a powerful, profitable market niche. The explosion began with J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and […]