Plastic Surgery for Teen Girls: Is it right for your daughter?

Nips, tucks, and lifts have become commonplace in our society among adults, and in particular, women. Women spend an estimated $300 million on cosmetic surgery each year in the United States. Yet, a desire to find the fountain of youth has led some women to extremes and others to invest in cosmetic surgery procedures for [...]

Cyber Dating: What every teacher, parent, and girl should know.

By: Mary Jo Rapini, LPC.

If you knew what I know about cyber-dating you would be very afraid. You would fear the ease in which a child under 18 years of age can sign up and what it can do to a child’s life. Although dating services sites are usually restricted to people less than 18 [...]

PDA and Your Teen Daughter: How Affectionate Is Too Affectionate?

By: Mary Jo Rapini, LPC.

Teens are advertising their relationships out in public all the time. Go to Facebook, or MySpace and you can see whom they are dating, whom they formerly dated, and basically everything they have done in the past month. It is scary, especially if that teen happens to be yours.
Even when your [...]

Teenage Girls and Plastic Surgery

Nose jobs have become the new high school “graduation present” for many girls. But what messages are we sending to our daughters? Check out the pro’s and con’s of teen cosmetic surgery.