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Published 12.15.2008 | Permanent Link

From a California punk to a Georgia drag queen, the pride and passion of a generation coming of age.
More photos at MSNBC.com This photo and the others excerpted from It's Complicated: The American Teenager by Robert Bowman.
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Mom: "What happened in school today?" Daughter: "Nothing." Mom: "Really, nothing happened?" Daughter: "Yep, nothing."
End of Conversation. Daughter goes straight to her bedroom… her fingers are flying… Texting, IMing. Now she’s “talking.”
Girl Confidential is your ultimate guide to what tween girls ages 10-15 are REALLY saying, thinking, doing and dreaming - straight from their AllyKatzz.com blogs (with permission). SECRETS, boys, fashion, celebrities, school, parents, siblings, mean girls, best friends, eating disorders, books, movies, sex, stress, music and everything tween. I'll unwrap it all for you… tips on how to speak her language and find out what “nothing” really means.
As the founder of AllyKatzz.com, the safe social networking site for tween girls, Denise Restauri is directly tapped into the tween girl world every day. The girls have asked her to help moms understand what’s really going on in their worlds. They love questions… just ask her denise@allykatzz.com.
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