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Texting, how much you're spending on facebook to get an idea of what you're doing. this is for both teens and parents. blame your parents. you know, parents are a great way to sort of be the scapegoat. if you're online and you don't want to be online anymore and you're feeling pressure from your friends, say, gosh, you know, my mom is making me get off. i'm sorry i have to go talk to them or i have to go to dinner. great excuse. >> brill want. excellent. i have learned things, armed with new information. vanessa, good to talk to you, founder of radicalparenting.com. thanks for being with us. ...

If you're a parent of a teen i imaginer, no shock. these day, text messaging maniacs. folks at the research center and university of michigan found that the typical teen sends somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 texts a day and presumably they've got a similar number coming in. then you've got a sizable number of kids sending more than 100 texts a day. that's over 3,000 a month. and, yeah, this is a big jump in a short amount of time. the percentage of teens who text their friends daily doubled between 2006 and 2009. here to talk about teens and texting with us is vanessa van patton, founder o...