Whether you are a teen or an adult, bullying is a very important topic to discuss. Throughout this quarter, especially in October, we have been focusing on it during National Bullying Prevention Month. Our featured author this month is our…
With October being Bullying Prevention Month, for this week’s blog, I will focus on an issue which has and still does affect teenagers, bullying. Today we are going to talk about what it means to be the target of a…
Welcome to Selma’s Monthly News for October! Monthly News posts Selma P. Verde is Sharon’s (the owner and visionary of Mentoring A Dream) penname. She is the author of The Way Series, a coming-of-age series of teen and young adult…
This quarter, we explored our quarterly theme, Peer Pressure, by talking about confidence and choices, consequences of giving into peer pressure and the effect of teen cliques and back to school. Let’s take a look at some of the things…
This month’s featured author is Rosalind Wiseman. She is an internationally recognized author and expert on children, parenting, social justice, and ethical leadership. She has written two amazing books, one about boys and one about girls, that help us to…
With teens and young adults getting back to school, the rise of the teen cliques and the pressures they apply to students starts up again. How do teen cliques create peer pressure? Let’s start off talking about what a clique…
Welcome to Selma’s Monthly News for September! And Happy Labor Day! Monthly News posts Selma P. Verde is Sharon’s (the owner and visionary of Mentoring A Dream) penname. She is the author of The Way Series, a coming-of-age series of…
As we talk more about peer pressure, I continue to look for resources on how we can help the teens in our life deal with it. It isn’t something that will just go away. We all deal with pressure from…
This month’s featured resource is the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. It is an organization which is a part of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Their mission is to help parents raise teens…
This month’s featured author is Jodi Picoult. She is an author who writes about sensitive social topics in ways that are relatable to her readers. When looking for a book to read about peer pressure, I chose to read her…
