The facts are in: According to the New York Times, plastic surgery is rising steadily in teens (and even tweens) and with girls like Heidi Montag Pratt as potential “role-models” for girls, we should be very very scared. The 23-year-old reality star recently underwent no less than TEN plastic surgeries in one day — everything from getting F-sized boobs to face injections and a chin implant. It’s scarily not uncommon, for parents to buy their kids boob-jobs for graduation, but isn’t this going just a little bit too far?

Are you having a hard time talking to your tween? An expert answers all your questions on how to stay connected to your kids. Modernmom got the chance to talk to parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman, who helps parents, educators and young people navigate the social challenges of young adulthood. She had some incredibly insightful advice for parents on how to stay connected with their tweens. By the way, Rosalind is a New York Times Best Seller and her book, “Queen Bees and Wannabes” was the basis for the movie “Mean Girls”– which we’re pretty sure your tweens have watched.

Fifteen year old Phoebe Prince’s body was found hanging in the stairway leading to her family’s second-floor apartment in South Hadley, a Massachusetts suburb from an apparent suicide. The family had recently moved to the area from Ireland and as it now turns out Phoebe was being harassed as she walked through the halls of school, and was followed on the way home from school. Now, nine teenagers have been charged with involvement in a months-long campaign of bullying. Before it claims the lives and emotional well-being of more children, bullying has to stop.