Parenting Adolescents
Solutions and suggestions to understand the challenges and issues your adolescent faces. Be inspired and learn more about your role, puberty and the brain. Articles have you in mind and are chosen from popular blogs, the news sources, and writers, like me, who are experts on tweens and teens.
3 Things Your Tween Wishes You Didn’t Do
I have full faith in you and your parenting, yet I want to share ...
Keeping Promises in the Time of Conflict
Your adolescent is angry, and she directs it at you. Before school started last ...
The Truth About Failing
Failure sounds and feels like defeat and disappointment. Something that we didn't want to ...
Upgrade Your Summer to Easy
Finally, we had a normal school year, and our hopes for a glorious summer ...
Mother’s Day Love to You
I know you will enjoy the brunches, dinners, accolades, gifts, and flowers that honor ...
Easy Ways to Make Connections with Your Tween
We create closeness with our children by meeting them exactly where they are. The ...
We’re Here to Support Each Other
I admired Jennifer's 100% motivation to get things done, achieve goals, and be kind ...
Happy Thanksgiving
It's appreciation season! Spotting strengths in others is a big deal. We want to ...
The Worst Kid in Class and Me!
Sitting together on the couch after dinner, Greg, Aiden's dad, channel surfs, and Aiden, ...
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 ...
Simple Ways to Grow Your Tweens’ Strengths
You and I know school requires more than learning the subject matter. At its heart ...
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 ...
4 ways to Boost Your Mental Health
Now that we can talk about mental health without shame or stigma, it’s time to ...
The Love you Give
Being a mom was easier before the moodiness, shrugs, and slammed doors. We cringed. Being ...
Bullying: The Beginning, Middle, and End.
Few things feel as disarming and disturbing as being bullied. As much as we hope ...
Technology didn’t suck last week!
Do you vacillate between absolute appreciation and irritating impatience with technology? I suspect we share ...
The #1 Valentine This Year
The media and stores do a fantastic job reminding us that it’s time to purchase ...
A Yearly Perk for Middle Schoolers
A super-cool perk of being in middle school is the giant window of opportunity that ...
How Mission Control Really Works
It happens all the time. You start a project with clarity, energy, and time. And ...
