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more about #tweenagewasteland more comments → labeled: I just read an awesome story in Texas Monthly about a Tween Summit in Austin that focused on (amongst other things, of course) music - the girls forme... more » likepenguins: I'm okay with pink and purple balloons. I'd like it if my office had some right now. I'm glad that some focus is being given to the fact that younge... more » yes, i do know how to use my mouth: I think most tweens think that women are the superior beings, or at least have the right to be heard. I know that most of the girls at my middle schoo... more » jenrobe: This has just brough back memories of weeks and weeks of after-school-job and pocket money going on Silver Ravenwolf's "books" on Wicca. Thanks, Jezeb... more » colormeroutine: Because my friends and I were nerds our witch phases were accompanied by actual "research"- aka books to the extend that were available and barnes and... more » MargaretMoony: Oh, this was me circa my fifth grade years. more » VirginiaDentata: Hortense, you are truly a gifted writer. Thank you. more » hatepuns: I just watched this movie last night! Great memories. more » KarmaChameleon: I'm glad you took the time to make the distinction, but this post and the subsequent comments are really bugging me. What you're describing is a form ... more » sleepeatread: This is definitely the better Fairuza Baulk witchcraft film. more » tiredfairy: I had several friends who went through this phase, though most of them actually got books on Wicca and Paganism and made the attempt to get things as ... more » Schrodinger's Cat: My mother declared herself Wiccan when she was 19 years old in 1979. Nowadays she's a pretty secular, non-practicing Pagan, like most folks, really. ... more » sleepeatread: My mother is still waiting for me to grow out of my "phase." Been over a decade now Mom...time to accept your Pagan spawn! more » cand86: Yup, indeed. I was in the cutest lil' "coven" in probably the 4th or 5th grade (I can't even remember what we did, besides stand around in the atmosp... more » TheFormerJuneBronson: I never pretended to be a witch, but I did go through that tarot-card phase, and have had a longstanding academic obsession with the Salem witch trial... more » -
#kidstoday
Tween Summit Reveals The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright
If you think teens are text-addicted sexters whose brains are being turned to mush thanks to technology and pop music, you didn't attend the Tween Summit on October 10, 2009 in Washington DC. USA Today reports "It's about girl power." More » -
#thecraft
I Was A Fake Teenage Witch
The Bush Administration reportedly denied J.K. Rowling a Presidential Medal of Freedom over fears that her Harry Potter series promoted witchcraft. Apparently they weren't aware that many of us, Harry Potter or no, go through our witchcraft phase anyway. More » -
#deardiary
Teenage Wasteland: Your Old Diaries Are Awkward, Awe-Inspiring
A month ago, we asked you to send us a page from your old journals. Today, we reveal our submissions, and you get a peek at the secret turmoil that was meant only for the dear diary. More » -
#deardiary
Reminder: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diary
Don't forget to send us a page from your old diary! You can send a scan or a photograph, but it should be no smaller than 500 pixels wide. Email it to photos@jezebel.com. More info here. -
#livingdolls
Child Pageants: American Pasttime Exported Across The Pond
The latest U.S. export to land on foreign shores? Child pageants. The BBC3 documentary Baby Beauty Queens follows contestants in the first-ever Mini Miss UK contest, and, as Eleanor M. blogs for The F word: it's "surely a new low." More » -
#deardiary
To Do: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diaries
Last month, Shameless linked to a blog project called The Amy Diary: A Vancouver woman posts her junior high diaries. It's a unique perspective into the mind, lingo and anxieties of young girls. So I dug up my old diaries. More » -
#mousetraps
You Are 16, Going On 17, Baby, Ignore Those Comments
Last week, the tabloids were filled with breathless speculation over the demise of 16-year-old Miley Cyrus' relationship with her 20-year-old boyfriend, Justin Gaston, and her subsequent "reconnection" with Nick Jonas. Commenters took the opportunity to rip Miley to shreds. More » -
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#tweenagewasteland
"Where Are We Supposed to Hang Out? It's A Free Country Isn't It?"
Rotterdam's use of a device called a "mosquito" — which emits an annoying sound only heard by people under age 25 (to discourage groups of kids from loitering) — has supporters and opponents. [Spiegel] -
#tweenagewasteland
The Tweens Tire Of Bratz-Influenced Styles
Tired of the slinky, Bratz-esque fashions that have been shoved upon them over the past decade or so, tweens are finally moving back toward fashionable but age-appropriate clothing. The reasons: Hannah Montana and parental approval. More » -
#toystories
New Dora Revealed!
Click to enlarge and to compare new "tween" Dora The Explorer to her original self. [AP] More » -
#tweenagewasteland
Do 12-Year-Old Girls Ever Need To Be "Fabulous"?
Babble's Ada Calhoun is appalled by a new tween book called The Girls’ Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess. "The jacket flap copy on the girls’ book. Be confidant. Be glamorous…
