Parenting Teens and Tweens
Dear Teen: Sometimes You Don’t Find Your People in High School
Dear teen: I saw you looking a little dejected on your phone the other day, sprawled out on the couch on a Friday night. I know you were wondering why you weren’t included, or maybe you thought that you should have been doing something other…
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Even When You Have Great Kids, It’s Still Exhausting Raising Teenagers
About a decade ago, my three young daughters and I rode up a hotel elevator with a couple who appeared to be in their fifties. They gushed at the girls who were in their fancy dinner dresses, and then turned their heads to me and…
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Five Important Tips from a Teen on How to Become a Healthcare Advocate
This is a contributed post from Talia Varsano, teen writer. I’m sitting in a familiar spot – the waiting area outside Gynecological Radiology at the Mayo Clinic, waiting for my older sister’s latest MRI to conclude. She’s finally on the verge of surgery, the only…
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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.
