Parenting Teens and Tweens
How to Better Prepare Your Teen for the Digital SAT
This is a contributed post from Erica Meltzer, founder of The Critical Reader. Erica is the author of Reading & Writing Test Book: Digital SAT®. Although test-optional admissions were gaining steam prior to Covid-19, the pandemic pushed many colleges to drop standardized testing requirements. While…
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What Parents Need to Know About the Negative Impacts of Teen Ghosting
Recently, a friend shared a story about her daughter who is heading to college next year. Via her future college’s Instagram page, she hooked up with three other girls to share a dorm room suite during her freshman year. They started a group chat and…
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Teens and Summer Jobs—What Your Kids Need to Know
This is a contributed post from Gregg Murset, co-founder and CEO of BusyKid. The summer months are traditionally a time when teenagers get their first part time job. According to the Labor Department, teen employment reached a 14-year high last year. While most teens are…
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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.