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The Guardian Angel Diary - A Review

Depending on your spiritual upbringing, you may or may not believe that we each have a guardian angel assigned to watch over us. 

The Guardian Angel Diary by Grant Schnarr takes a fictional look at one girl's relationship with her guardian angel.

Nicole Bealart already had it rough when her mother dies of cancer and her father shuts down, turning to alcohol to dull the pain.  So when Nicole is diagnosed with a brain tumor she turns to the only "person" who can help - her guardian angel. 

Written in Nicole's point of view, her diary (and the entries to her angel and his responses) deliver a unique story of coping and hope.  This book demonstrates Nicole's true feelings and desires and gives a wonderful flavour to the over all story.  Classified as young adult fiction, this book is an interesting read and is sure to be appealing to teenagers.

The Guardian Angel Diary is available on Amazon

About the Author;

Minister and Life-Coach Grant Schnarr draws together voices of young people he has met and counseled to weave a fictional tale of love, fear and hope and teaches us about finding faith in the most unexpected places.

Knowing Your Child's Lingo May Save Their Life

by Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC
Parents, your children's safety may depend upon you knowing their text and instant messaging lingo. Numerous web sites including TrueCare.net, and Netsmartz.org are now helping parents learn how to understand what their kids are saying to each other in an effort to prevent and stop bullying. For example, did you know that CD9 means parents are around or that MIRL means meet me in real life? If you think you have had the talk with your child and they understand the rules about texting and instant messaging, don't be sure that this is all you need to know to be safe. I participated in 17 stories for HLN and CNN last year. Thirteen of those stories had to do with children being hospitalized or killed due to bullying, suicide, or kidnappings from people they talked to on the Internet or texting.

Here are a few terms that will help you get started with understanding your children's texts or instant messaging.

Starbucks...*$

Thanks...10x

One to one...121

I love you...143

I hate you...182

To...2

Too cool...2c

Too cool for you...2c4u

Today...2 day

Too hot to handle...2H2H

Too late...2L8

Too much to handle...2M2H

Too much information...2 MI

Tomorrow...2morrow or 2mrw

Tonight...2nite

To you too...2U2

Mom...303

Threesome...3sum

For...4

Information...411

Marijuana...420

Forever...4ever

Forgive me...4GM

For real...4rl

For you...4U

For you too...4U2

Forward...4ward

Oral Sex...8

Over, out of, get rid of...86

Parent in room...CD9

Parent has left...99

Anyplace, anywhere, anytime...A3

Always and forever...AAF

As a matter of fact...AAMOF

Address...addy

As far as I'm concerned...AFAIAC

At home...AH

AOL Instant Messenger...AIM

Actually laughing out loud...ALOL

Available on cell...AOC

Angel on your pillow...AOYP

Age, sex, location...ASL

Age, Sex, Location, Picture...ASLP

At what time...AWT

As you know...AYK

Are you stupid or something...AYSOS

Drug of choice...DOC

There has become a sexualization of youth in our society.

Sex is power, and kids want power. They want to fit in and feel good, and there are people who do not have your children's best interest at heart. These people are available at all times via the internet and texting. Parents must be aware and talk with their kids. Make your home a safe place your child can come home to. You can create a safe place by following these guidelines offered by Netsmartz.org.

1. Keep the computer in a common area.

2. Create safe user names and profiles.

3. Don't let your children meet face to face with strangers they met online (you have to be checking to know.)

4. Teach children what to do if they get an offensive or threatening IM, E-Mail, or chartroom post (they should begin by showing you.) For cyberbullying, go to http://wiredsafety.org/ or email http://www.cybertipline.com/. You can also call them at 1-800-843-5678.

5. Look into filtering or monitoring software for your computer.

6. Let children show you what they can do online and visit their favorite sites.

Parents, it takes your involvement to keep your child safe.

Remember that girls cyberbully more than boys and that bullying is no longer the bullying you grew up with. It is constant torture; and it happens at a time your child's sense of self is not fully developed. This is part of the reason it can have disastrous effects on children. Any child under the age of 14 should not be on a social network. If your tween is on Facebook, MySpace, or any of the other social networks, I would ask you to reconsider setting firmer boundaries at home. Blaming the schools, churches, or wherever else your child encountered a harmful person will not help if your child is hurt, nor will it heal your pain if your child takes their life.

Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist and co-author with Janine J. Sherman, of Start Talking: A Girl's Guide for You and Your Mom About Health, Sex or Whatever. Read more about the book at www.StartTalkingBook.com and more about Rapini at www.maryjorapini.com.

Good Boy Roy's 15 Year Old Entrepeneur

To wrap up Interview Week, I have a very special guest. His name is Zack and he's a 15 year old T-shirt Entrepeneur.

Zack comes up with and draws all his t-shirt designs and if that's not enough, Zack does all this while suffering from OCD and ADD, as well as Tourettes and Tics.

Check out this remarkable young man.

Tell us a bit about yourself

I am 15, I will be in 10th grade this year, school is really hard for me because I get upset so easy and frustrated. I am funny, handsome and love my family and dog and I am outgoing.

What made you decide to start your own T-shirt business?

It was kind of a whim my mom had when I showed her some of my new drawings. She sent one to a friend who makes t-shirts and surprised me with one of my characters (Roy) on a shirt. We thought it was cute,some other people did too, so then we thought I would draw a whole gang of people to put on shirts. Good Boy Roy is kind of my alter ego. Ever since I was a baby I had trouble with my emotions and get upset real easy, and frustrated, but I would always say "I really am a good boy" after my "episodes". I give all my characters names, the first guy was Roy, so mom said let's call him Good Boy Roy, we started talking about drawing him doing different mischevious things but saying "I really am a good boy" like me.

Do you draw all the designs for the shirts?

Yes, I draw them all.

How do you come up with new ideas for the shirts?

I think of them in my head, the characters just come into my mind.

What have you learned running your own business?

Well, mom really does most of it now, I do all the drawings and decide how to color them and the t-shirt colors. Mom does all the computer work because computers make me really upset and frustrated. We do the festivals and carnivals together. I like meeting people and telling them about my designs, people are usually surprised when I tell them I drew them all. The festivals are long days, and hard work but usually fun.

What's the hardest part of running the business?

The festivals when it is so hot outside, the heat makes me really tired. Also I have so many drawings and new characters and want them all on shirts but we cant do it all now. I really want GBR to be big and have a Good Boy Roy store one day.

What is the best part of the business? Worse part?

The best part is seeing my characters on shirts in color. I had never seen them in color before, just in pencil, it's like they come to life in color on the shirts. And I like wearing them and seeing other people wear them. It's also nice for people to say that I am talented and they like my stuff. The worse part is wanting to do so much and not being able to all at once.

Can you describe what it feels like to see one of your shirts on a stranger?

It's so cool, awesome. It makes me so proud.

What advice do you have for other teens that may want to start their own business?

I would say go for it, if you want to do something you should try. Mom always says you have to try, doesn't hurt to try and we should never wonder what if? and we should always have goals and dreams to look forward to.

Where can we purchase on of Good Boy Roy shirts?

We just got our new website up, it's at: http://www.goodboyroy.com/

What sizes are available? Colours?

Gosh, we have lots of designs, most designs come in youth and adult sizes and some different colors.

Anything else you'd like to add?

This has been fun, having me and mom do this business together is fun, it's cool to see people wearing my shirts.

Be sure to stop by Good Boy Roy and order up one of these awesome tee's. From now until the end of August get a 10% discount by using the coupon code "summersale" on any order.

More About Zack (Zman)

About the boy behind Good Boy Roy (we call him Zman): He is 15 and has always loved to draw. He raced BMX bikes at one time and played baseball most of his life.

Zack has always been funny,silly and loves to do impersonations.He is like most kids but has some challenges that he has struggled with growing up, like OCD and ADD, then a strep infection which is believed to have caused him to develope Tourettes and Tics. (It's called PANDAS) This can all make things pretty chaotic. Zack's drawing usually helped him calm down, was comforting to him and is something he has always been proud of.

He is a huge sports fan, his dad is from Georgia so he is a HUGE DAWG fan!!! He has one sister, Kelsie, and 4 dogs.

Click here to check out Zack on WYFF 4 Interview with Good Boy Roy.