Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.