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life skills taught to middle school students using the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education curriculum
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So What are Life Skills and Why are They Important?

When I set out to write my memoir, my purpose was simply to help teen mothers with their lives. I wanted to share life skills to help them be successful in spite of being teen parents. Then many other people started reading it, and I realized…
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The Hardest Job I Never Applied For

When I was 15, I got a new job. The summer before I had worked at a summer camp cleaning bathrooms and kitchenettes on a college campus for a summer program. I think the kids participating were my age. I wasn't really old enough to work, but…
Tylyn Young

You’ll be impressed by what a 7th grade boy learned from Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother

I am always humbled and honored when anyone takes the time to read my book. It is my story of becoming a mother at 15 and living and succeeding in life as a single mother. When adults read it, I appreciate the understanding and hope that they…