Parenting Teens and Tweens
Teen Smartphone Addiction: How to Identify the Symptoms and Break Free
Inside: Teen cell phone addiction is real, but it is important for parents to understand it’s never too late to enforce some tech boundaries. Recently, a friend took in her 13-year-old niece for the summer because her parents fell on some rough times. At first,…
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The Best Way to Change Your Parenting Now Is to Address Your Past
This is a contributed post by PTT co-owner Whitney Fleming. Her new book, You’re not a Failure: My Teen Doesn’t Like Me Either will be available this Fall. My whole life, I thought there was something wrong with me. Why were certain relationships hard for…
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Parenting in the Influencer Age of Toxic Social Media
The following is a contributed post from Dr. Charlotte Markey, author of Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life. Parents often ask me what they should, “do about social media,” in the context of wanting to help their tweens and teens develop a positive body…
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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.