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14-Year-Old Leads Protest on Seventeen

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If you don’t like something, change it. This 14-year-old is working to do just that. Julia Bluhm of Waterville, Maine, is petitioning Seventeen magazine to “give girls images of real girls!” Julia has started a petition on change.org,…
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The Temptation: Alisa Valdes on Her New Novel, Love and Paranormal Activity

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New York Times bestselling author and Mamiverse contributor Alisa Valdes has released a new book, this time a young adult fiction novel, The Temptation. The first in a trilogy titled The Kindred and published by HarperCollins’ imprint HarperTeen,…
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What Caine’s Arcade Teaches Us About Modern Parenting

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Is it possible that the parenting guru my generation so desperately needs is a dude who sells used car parts out of a store in East L.A.? Can it be that George Monroy with his goatee and receding hairline—who gave his 9 year-old some cardboard…
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Anti-Aging Makeup for Tween Girls?

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What woman doesn't remember dipping into her mother’s cosmetics, as a little girl, and playing dress-up? The result was always a splash of over-made lipstick, blush and heavy eye shadow. It was all, just for fun, and we never left the…