A mention last week of a teen social-media queen's exposure of the falsifying of images and plea for kids to get real led us to talk more today about all the new-tech ways adolescent girls now have to feel bad about themselves. Teen actress Zendaya complained when a magazine doctored images to trim a little bit off her body, but apparently many girls are happy to do that to themselves on Instagram and other popular photo sites, and the falsification even goes so far as paying for "likes" and the status that goes with them. We compared notes on how our daughters are doing with this new opportunity to feel judged and inferior, and wondered what the equivalent was back in our day. 
We then gave some likes to the topic of regional expressions, drawing on our geographical distance from one another to create a collection of our own New England New Jersey Wisconsin California Canada Australia lingo. Listen to find out more about E-ticket rides, SIG alerts, sassy and wicked, thongs and rubbers, babies getting nookie, the right way to say "ayuh," the wrong way to order coffee, and what you call that carbonated beverage.
Finally, we shared our recommendations for the week: Catherine appreciated a New York Times Motherlode blog post on why kids love Snapchat and why that’s OK for making her feel better about her parenting; Amanda thought the Jezebel article "Trying to Change Your Regional Accent Is Practically Impossible" was wicked good; Nicole passed on a fun article about the fake vs real side of Instagram; and Terri had some articles from her site about the danger of using figures of speech with kids who have issues with language or literal thinking, and a good book for teaching those confusing expressions.
Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our episodes and Kristen Eredics for our happy in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.