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How to Reach Your Teen’s Heart

How would you rate your relationship with your teen daughter or son? If you are unsure, or you want to double check your answer, imagine hearing the sounds of your teen entering your house. Now ask yourself this question: How do I react when I hear my teen coming home?
Your honest answer will instantly reveal [...]


The Truth About Teen Blogging

Four million teens are blogging! What’s a blog you ask? A blog (web + log) is an online journal often hosted free of charge by such companies as MySpace.com, LiveJournal, and Facebook.com.
Blogging is quickly becoming the “teen” pastime of choice. It has huge appeal because (1) it’s fast and easy; if you can write, you [...]


Teen Dreams-5 Key Questions

We all want what’s best for our kids. We want them to be happy and successful. But, could it be that you are projecting your dreams on to your kids? Do you know what they want for themselves? Many parents think “good parenting” means making sure your child excels in academics, attends a top college, [...]


Give the Gift of Good Conversation

The secret to having kids look forward to spending time with mom and dad lies in treating teens as if they are already adults. When you accept teens as they are and simultaneously bring them to the level of adults, you create a friendly meeting ground. Below are seven ways to help you enjoy your [...]


R-e-s-p-e-c-t Works Both Ways!

Respect matters! As parents, we want and deserve to be treated with respect. It’s frustrating, even infuriating, when teens treat us disrespectfully! Yet, in order to have respect, we must first give it to ourselves. How would you rate the level of respect you have for yourself?
Take a mini personal inventory and check to see [...]


5 Secrets for Handling Difficult Teen Parenting Situations

The most common issues between parents and teens arise due to poor communication, power struggles and a lack of empathy. If you use the same parenting methods that you did when your teen was a child, you won’t get positive results. You’ll just exhaust your energy.
There are five secrets to help you move from conflict [...]


How to Get Teens to Organize and Clean Their Room

These tips are in response to the many frustrated parents who have emailed me for help about how to get their kids to clean and organize their room. Often parents get tired of nagging and decide to wait it out, hoping their teen will get to cleaning before it becomes a hygienic necessity! Of course, [...]


How to Effectively Talk to Kids about Tragedies

Watching the news, seeing actual footage of a tidal wave, hurricane, or earthquake and witnessing the resulting devastation, ignites feelings of distress and overwhelm in adults, let alone in our children. How young people are affected by such tragedies largely depends on the level of maturity and overall temperament of each child plus the coping [...]


The Best Way to Handle Bullies

Traditionally, we might think of bullying as picking a physical fight with someone and taking possession of some lunch money or worse. But today bullying isn’t limited to physical assault or stealing. Bullying can take many shapes and sizes. According to a study by the National Education Association, every day 160,000 students miss school for [...]


How Much Freedom is Too Much?

We all know that parenting teens is not easy. New challenges surface regularly and there are a lot of grey areas. How much freedom to give your teen is one of them.
Let’s take the example of teen curfews. Below you’ll see how three distinct parenting styles would typically handle setting curfews:
Authoritative Parent:
<> Would prefer to [...]










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