I know several women online who are moms and who use internet to stay updated with the right purpose of educating their children in the best way possible, but they often have to face problems due to the differences of generation and sometimes this ends up disheartening them.

Well, from now on, with the blog which I am about to review, you will have a great help in accomplishing your aim!

In fact, Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology wants to help parents to keep up with the modern society to stay connected with their teenage children.

Its owner, Jennifer, is obviously a mom of teens who is addicted to pop culture and has learnt to be tech-savvy for her jobs; she has both an MLS and a JD degrees, worked for years in the field of the internet research, especially as academic law librarian. She was also the coordinator of a conference program called "Multitasking Millennials" and had the chance to run a computer school for kids; now she is working at the Paley Center for Media in NY.

This varied background taught successfully Jennifer the right way to explore the differences occurred in offline and online media and technology during the years, analyzing the development from past to present and imagining the future, all with the steady belief that a meeting-point for teens and parents is really possible to have a better dialogue, which can generate a better understanding between the generations and obviously allows to have more serene and conscious relationships.

Jennifer creates a totally original content, using often her own experience and memories to introduce the topics of her entries. Her reader immediately realizes that she pays extreme attention to every detail of the subjects which she examines, always finding the best connections to face and solve the problems due to the change of society during the years.

Well, I am not a mom yet, but I guess that, thanks to the desire of sharing her remarkable attempts and knowledge, Jennifer offers a big opportunity to every mom to actually appear cool to her teens, like it happened for her, and to learn better how to rear her children making them feel a real emotional nearness; I even think that everybody who works close to children and who has something to do with them should read the Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology blog, because the society is changing so fast and we really need to find meeting-points between the generations to avoid to lose the best of us.

Every day you can find a new interesting post there, with several links to great resources, pictures and examples which support the fantastic job made by Jennifer.

The design is very neat, the content is clear, well-organized, divided per month and labels and offers a great list of blogs about similar and related topics; in this blog, you can also find some buttons to recommend your favourite entries and, for what I saw, I can affirm that all the Jennifer's posts are quite famous, especially on Digg.com…this shows clearly that the content is really useful!

What are you waiting for? I am sure that you are too curious to discover new great ways to connect with your teens, so visit Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology and start to look the modern society as a positive opportunity for an important and valuable meeting between generations.

Connect With Your Teens was recently given an award for being "a blog that takes entertainment and celebrity happenings and breaks it down for parents to deal with their teens."

Today I would like you to discover a very pleasant blog, Kawaii. As the title suggests, it is about everything kawaii, which in Japanese means "super cute, little, lovely, charming, dear, darling, pet", but also about scrapbooking and nice products, swaps, photographs, little dolls and personal life.

Its owner, Vanessa Colant, Nessa for everybody, is a Belgian young woman with Italian roots, she is mom of two fantastic children, she is very active, both online and offline, she knows the French, Italian and English languages; she always looks for new opportunities to create and share the best moments of life, in fact she is part of several scrapbooking Design Teams all over the world (in France, Belgium, USA and Australia), identifying her style mostly with the kawaii and the freestyle ones, but also loving the rétro and wanting to try always different techniques, she organizes great weekly challenges with nice prizes and she has been recently published in a French scrapbooking magazine.

Her Kawaii blog is about Nessa's personal life and is obviously totally original, her scrapbooking layout tells about her family, her thoughts, her purchases, her dolls, her meetings and so on, so that people can always have easily a glimpse into her life and really enter her world, feeling her strong love for life.

The style of Kawaii is very pleasant, always full of beautiful colored photos about Nessa's creations and events of her life, the design is clear, young and terribly womanish, for me it was love at first sight, because I found a very interesting person and a 100% true friend.

Nessa updates her blog almost every day and sometimes even more times in a day, it depends on her spare time and her inspiration, which is always very lively and contagious.

It is impossible to feel bored when visiting the Kawaii blog, because Nessa writes in a really engaging way, you will go off the deep end with her projects of life and creations.

She always writes in French, which is her main language, but sometimes also in English, especially when she replies to the frequent foreign comments (she also added a special stuff for the automatic translation in the upper part of her blog), so feel free to leave her your comments because she understands English and especially I am sure that she will be happy to receive them and to know new friends worldwide.

In the right column of Kawaii, you can find a clear space dedicated to Nessa's favourite links as the blogroll, interesting online and offline boutiques and shops and even the links to her other blogs and cooperations.

I heartily suggest you to know Nessa, for me she is a great young woman because she faces life always with her smile, pragmatism and desire to succeed in everything she does and I am sure you will also feel the strong will to join the weekly challenges which are organized by her and her Design Team, everybody worldwide receive a hearty welcome and feel immediately at home (the link to reach the challenges is called "2008 Scrap Challenge", you can find it in the right column of the Kawaii blog), so enjoy your visit there.

Desi Zavatta Musolino is an Italian young woman, born in 1980 in a small town in province of Bologna, which is situated in the Northern region of Emilia-Romagna, but soon will move to low Piedmont for love.

Desi is a curious, sensitive and creative young woman.
She has a strong passion for travels, photography, writing, scrapbooking, singing, cooking, theatre and deeply loves animals.

She worked for several years into the field of commerce, as cashier, saleswoman and co-owner of a fruits and vegetables shop.
When her boyfriend was moved to another region with his job during summer 2006, she ended up staying at home alone, praying for his coming back, but without really knowing if it was possible for him to work again in Bologna.

That is how Desi started to look for work-at-home jobs, to have the chance to meet her boyfriend every now and then and to stay active.
She quickly became web writer and citizen journalist, writing articles for web magazines and websites about travel, cooking, hobby&craft, modern society, news and religion; during next Autumn she will follow the biennal path to become freelance journalist.
She also proposes herself as freelance translator from Italian to English and vice versa for online and offline publishing houses, travel agencies and private people.
In addition, she started to cooperate with an Italian publishing house as sales agent for online courses about journalism, writing, poetry and translation and recently became scrapbooking consultant for her strong desire to teach her wonderful discovery about how to enhance the value of personal memories.
She is almost everywhere online, she likes to network with other bloggers and also foreign people, because she loves to share cultures and experiences.

Her latest highly desired creature is "The Italian Voice", a blog written by her as pro blogger about everything Italy and Italian, with marked incursions into her life with trips, recipes, photos, opinions and experiences; with it, she hopes to let people discover her beloved Country with her own eyes.

Desi defines herself a citizen of the world, her dream is to become travel writer and fiction writer, but she also desires to become soon mom of two or three children and have a wonderful family.