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3 Tips to Enhance Your Tween’s Success at School

  School starts soon, so your child won't be grabbing popsicles from the fridge or binge-watching Stanger Things all day long. That makes it time to chat with them about what specific grades they...
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Simple Ways to Grow Your Tweens’ Strengths 

  You and I know school requires more than learning the subject matter. At its heart lies a framework for gaining skills that range from perseverance and resilience to bravery. Ironically the...
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Technology is Here to Stay – So Let’s Embrace it

  The tipping point when our adolescent knows more than we do about social media, technology trends, and phones will happen soon… if it hasn’t already. Unlike other challenges your tween may be...
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4 ways to Boost Your Mental Health

  Now that we can talk about mental health without shame or stigma, it’s time to build ours. Our social and emotional well-being shapes our attitude, perspective, and energy. It factors in to...
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The Love you Give

  Being a mom was easier before the moodiness, shrugs, and slammed doors. We cringed. Being a mom had never felt like this before. We were uncomfortable and wondered if it was us. But it wasn't...
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TED Talks: Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection

Speaker Reshma Saujani We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma ...
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The Tween Times: Empathy in Action

The Tween Times News, support, and stories to empower you raising your tween. Empathy in Action Sitting together after dinner, ...
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The Tween Times: How to Validate Character in our Adolescents

The Tween Times News, support, and stories to empower you raising your tween. How to Validate Character in Adolescents It ...
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Being Mom To A Middle Schooler Can Be The Toughest Gig Of All

by Juli Fraga Although her oldest child, Ben, is 10 years old, Andrea Scher, 44, feels like a new mom ...
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Trust Your Gut

Trust your gut We Share This Strength "Mom, the new girl, Lauren, asked me to spend the night tonight. She's ...
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Sorry, Miss Manners

Sorry, Miss Manners I had to pee when I took my sister's call. The longer we chatted, well, you know, ...
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Want to Raise Resilient Kids? A Navy SEAL Says Always Do This

by Bill Murphy Jr. Resilience is defined as "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." There's no surprise that ...
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The Unplug Challenge

The Unplug Challenge My older daughter and I were sitting on the couch using our phones when she announced she ...
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