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.
Happy Thanksgiving
It's appreciation season! Spotting strengths in others is a big deal. We want to ...
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Your Tween’s Brain
Remember when you were young, looking up at your future - the idea of ...
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The Worst Kid in Class and Me!
Sitting together on the couch after dinner, Greg, Aiden's dad, channel surfs, and Aiden, ...
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That One Class
Lauren and her 11-year-old son, Jaxon agreed that signing up for band in 6th ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Love you Give
Being a mom was easier before the moodiness, shrugs, and slammed doors. We cringed. Being ...
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Bullying: The Beginning, Middle, and End.
Few things feel as disarming and disturbing as being bullied. As much as we hope ...
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Technology didn’t suck last week!
Do you vacillate between absolute appreciation and irritating impatience with technology? I suspect we share ...
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The #1 Valentine This Year
The media and stores do a fantastic job reminding us that it’s time to purchase ...
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A Yearly Perk for Middle Schoolers
A super-cool perk of being in middle school is the giant window of opportunity that ...
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How Mission Control Really Works
It happens all the time. You start a project with clarity, energy, and time. And ...
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Help Your Tween Start 2022 on a High Note
We frame each new year with a deficit model. We stake out specific resolutions for ...
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The Stranger
Minding my own business, I stood in line at Sprouts, balancing a pint of strawberries ...
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What I Learned From Ted Lasso
If you have not streamed the best new show ever on TV, please consider moving ...
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It’s Not Your Fault
When tweens shift their attention from their parents to their peers, parents frequently feel disconnected, ...
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We’re Raising Problem Solvers
When we notice the trash can is not on the curb, and it’s our child’s ...
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Life is Fragile
We live our lives with the best intentions to honor ourselves as well as those we ...
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