Parenting Teens and Tweens
How to Stop Social Media from Hijacking Your Teen’s Dopamine
Big tech, through social media apps, has intentionally hijacked this normal dopamine circuitry by providing multiple quick, easy spikes of dopamine each day via notifications, likes, streaks, messages, infinite scroll, autonext videos, etc.
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3 Unconventional Tips to Raise a Money Savvy Teen
According to this study, the typical 17- or 18-year-old knows very little about budgeting, borrowing, saving, and managing debt. Yet that same teen is probably also getting offers for credit cards—tools that, if used irresponsibly, can get them into years or decades of debt
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An Unbearable Pressure Cooker: The Truth About Teen Stress Today
The following is a contributed post from Susan Caso, MA, LPC, author of The Parent-Teen Connection: How to Build Lifelong Family Relationships. More teenagers are walking into my office already exhausted by a future they haven’t reached yet. If your child is entering middle or…
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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.
