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.

Upgrade Your Summer to Easy

  Finally, we had a normal school year, and our hopes for a glorious summer ...
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Mother’s Day Love to You

  I know you will enjoy the brunches, dinners, accolades, gifts, and flowers that honor ...
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Easy Ways to Make Connections with Your Tween

  We create closeness with our children by meeting them exactly where they are. The ...
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We’re Here to Support Each Other

  I admired Jennifer's 100% motivation to get things done, achieve goals, and be kind ...
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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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You Made It!

I wanted to pop in your inbox before 2022 to say well done. I salute ...
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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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