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This article outlines the importance of maintaining communication lines with your ex, and how email can be a useful medium: http://www.dreamboxvault.com/divorce-support-for-parents-successful-email-communication/ And this article offers some tips for communicating with your ex http://www.thirdage.com/divorce/communication-skills-divorced-parents

New research suggests that teens take drugs not just to be rebellious or to feel the effects, but because of the perception that doing drugs will make them look cool to their peers: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/parenting/Kids-take-drugs-and-alcohol-to-look-cool/articleshow/6651993.cms

This article offers some tips to help your teen feel good about how they look: http://esnews.org/2010/09/helping-your-teenagers-to-develop-pride-in-themselves-and-a-good-body-image/

This is a great blog by a mom trying to negotiate the subjectivity of truth and perception with the realities of raising teens: http://www.nj.com/parenting/ali_skylar/index.ssf/2010/09/teenagers_and_the_truth.html

New research suggests that as teens use texting to communicate more, they spend less time actually together: http://radioalice.radio.com/2010/09/28/teenagers-texting-more-than-driving/