Parenting Teens and Tweens
Dear Parents: It’s Time We Stop Texting Our Teens At School All Day
Hot take! And I know I’ll get a lot of “I’ll text my kids whenever I damn well please, thank you very much” responses. Listen, I get it. Parenting big kids is an overwhelming ball of a thousand moving parts floating around in the air…
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What Happens When Boys Deny Their Emotions
Inside: Why boys need to feel their emotions, not repress them My teenage son stayed home from school today. Again. Granted, he was not feeling great, but I think it was more due to sheer exhaustion and the need for “a day”… to which this…
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Teaching My Kids What True Friendship Looks Like is a Hard, but Valuable Life Lesson
Inside: How I’m teaching my kids to give their time and energy to real friendships When my three children were babies and toddlers, I often worried about them falling and bumping their head. I nursed skinned knees and too many “owies” and “booboos” to count.…
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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.