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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 [...]

Encouraging Responsible Cell Phone Use

Today, a young teen’s gift list is likely to include a cell phone right next to requests for video games and toys. But in the hands of a child without direction, a cell phone can be an enormous problem. How can you avoid the pitfalls and teach your teenager to use the phone responsibly?
With 25% [...]

Failure to Launch-Top Four Factors

The latest parenting challenge is dealing with emerging adults who have no intention of leaving the nest. Many 19- to 29-year-olds either return home after college or have never left. The media refers to them as “Boomerang Kids.” Parents are worried that their kids won’t ever start their own lives.
This new phenomenon is highlighted in [...]

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