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.
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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Get it Done: Don’t Let Your Mojo Slip
Life’s unpredictability in this third decade of the 21 century requires that our mojo, grit, ...
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6 Things Your Tween Needs from You as School Starts
Tweens lives are wonky as they are no longer children, and years away from adulthood ...
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How to Help Your Adolescent Set Goals
Setting goals with your adolescent can be tricky. Over-laying your goals on them and expecting ...
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How to Make Friends
After more than a year of fluctuating learning locations teachers, counselors, and administrators welcome students ...
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How to Talk About Moral Differences
How to Talk About Moral Differences By JoAnn Schauf We’re so much better at communicating ...
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Father’s Day Wishes
Tomorrow isn't Promised By JoAnn Schauf I’ve been thinking about my dad since the marketing ...
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We’re so Close to Normal
We're so Close to Normal By JoAnn Schauf This morning my favorite coffee shop owners ...
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