What do you want to be when you grow up? Teens don’t have to know

By Emily McAllister | April 12, 2012 - 2:43pm

This day and age an education is probably the most valuable thing you can equip yourself with.

Sticks and stones may break my bones

By Emily McAllister | February 13, 2012 - 9:21am

Words: there is nothing more powerful than our way of communication. Words can give hope, profess love, and save lives.

My friend: My saving grace

By Emily McAllister | January 10, 2012 - 12:05pm

Friendship (noun); definition: the saving grace of all teenagers   If you asked my best friend and me what we did in our free time, we would look at each other with sly smiles spread across our faces and burst out laughing.

Tunnel vision: A teenager’s point of view

By Emily McAllister | November 11, 2011 - 1:58pm

Between our first day of her freshman year of high school and the day we leave for college, we teen girls have a lot of growing up to do.

Fire + Gasoline: Teenage relationships

By Emily McAllister | October 11, 2011 - 12:36pm

Boys, boys, boys, boys. Every fairytale we ever watched as a kid starts with a girl, a beautiful girl, who’s in trouble and ends with the camera catching a glimpse of a handsome young man sweeping her off her feet and riding off into the sunset with her.

Teenage daughters: How to talk to us

By Emily McAllister | September 13, 2011 - 3:27pm

I think it’s safe to say that being the parent of a teenager is very difficult.