Some of my favorite blogs have reviewed How to Raise Your Parents (thanks to all you bloggers who read the book!). Here are the latest new reviews: The Reading Zone - How to Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girl’s Survival Guide by Sarah O’Leary Burningham was a nice break from the fiction I have been reading [...]
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Here's your weekly Ask Sarah B sesh. Remember if you want to ask a question and get some advice, you can email me at: AskSarahB@gmail.com Question:I have a question. Ok. I'm a twin and my mom always makes us do the same things. Even if one of us wants to do something and the other [...]
I’m terrible at most video games, although I have to say I totally rock Guitar Hero. I can’t get enough of that. My sister has Rock Band and since we don’t live in the same city, I haven’t played yet, but I can’t wait to get my hands on those drumsticks. There’s a new book [...]
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The economy is tanking. Not to sound depressing or anything, but gas is a freaking fortune and milk for my beloved Quaker Oatmeal Squares is ridiculously expense. (Note: If you haven't tried Oatmeal Squares, then you should. They come in a blue box.) I find is particularly interesting that in this time of financial worry, there [...]
Whenever I read a headline that says something like "The Secret Lives of Teenagers," I’m tempted to roll my eyes a little. Not because I don’t think teenagers have secrets, but because usually a headline this is an attempt to dramatize the bad decisions of a few teenagers and makes parents panics that their totally [...]
I have settled back home after being out on the road for 2 weeks. It’s great to be back home sleeping in my bed and waking up at a decent hour, but I kind of miss being out doing events and meeting people. So, I thought I would share some highlights from a few cities [...]
While I was on book tour, I got to speak to a bunch of high school and junior high students in all different cities about how to deal with their parents. Let me just say, these were by far the best events I did. The teenagers had the best questions and we had really good [...]
Here’s your weekly Ask Sarah B sesh. Remember if you want to ask a question and get some advice, you can email me at: AskSarahB@gmail.com Question:My best friend broke up with her boyfriend a few weeks ago and he just asked our other friend to go out with him. And our other friend said yes! [...]
When I was in high school my dad said to me (more than once), "If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you jump off, too?" Aside from the fact that this is a total cliche, it’s not a very good way to demonstrate peer pressure. At least I don’t think so. Would I jump [...]
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It’s sunny in Seattle and I feel so lucky. I lived in Bellevue growing up (the city right across the bridge from Seattle) and it’s not sunny very often. I think the book tour gods are being nice to me. Yesterday was a blast with 2 events in the Seattle area. The first was at [...]
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