Parenting Teens and Tweens
How to Raise Teens with Strong Money Management Skills
Financial literacy is a crucial concept for kids to learn—especially teens. Once our children enter the “big kid” years, they are long past saving change in their piggy banks and need to actually start thinking about how money works in the real world. The following…
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Ask These Important Questions If Your Teen Hates School
Middle and high school can overwhelm many teens. The increased load of tests and homework on top of extracurricular activities and other obligations is enough to fluster even the steadiest of students. As a relatively new teen parent myself, I have heard my fair share…
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These Essential Soft Skills Can Help Your Teen Succeed
Are you trying to teach your teens soft skills? Recently we were at a birthday party for some family friends. It was for an older couple, and many of the other guests were several decades older than my husband and me. Our children are under…
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CHANGING THE COLLEGE CONVERSATION
There is no ONE path to success when it comes to the choices our teens make post-high school. The college admission process is out of control and so are the costs to attend college. It’s time to start changing the college conversation. There needs to be less focus on rankings and we all need to start questioning what we are doing to the mental health of our teens with the demands being placed on them to get into their dream colleges. Instead, parents talk to their teens about how to fulfill their dreams – so they can not just survive but thrive in this challenging and ever-changing world.
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PARENTING TEENS TIPS
What do you do when your teen daughter no longer wants to be seen with you? Or when your chatterbox son starts responding only in grunts and sighs? Even if some of these teen stereotypes don’t happen in your house, chances are your relationship with your adolescent is changing. The good news is while parenting teens is hard, you don’t have to do it alone. Here are a few of our favorite parenting teens tips to develop a strong connection with your big kid.
