Katie is a 9th-grader and has been feeling that nothing is worth it anymore. As hard as she tries, she just doesn’t seem to fit in. The day before she had tried out for the school play, but when she got on stage, she froze up and just stopped in the middle of […]
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.
Aristotle
Oh, you can certainly say that again. […]
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith
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“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
Thomas A. Edison
Have to admit… it sure felt like that on numerous occasions. I’m sure a lot of parents feel the same way the minute their kids hit the teen years. How permissive should you be. Should you allow them to make their own decisions when […]
“Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com.
She posted a picture of the president, scrawled “Kill Bush” across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her […]
How do you feel about this video. Did the teacher have the right to do what he did?
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This book got me thinking. If we taught our kids just one thing a day, by the time they reached their teen years, we just might not have all the school violence that is so prevalent today.
I thought that with zero tolerance, the incidents would slowly fade away, but in a school just a […]
“Some days it is just too hard. Motherhood can drain you unlike anything else I can imagine. Today was one of those days for me. I don’t know if I hit my limit, the kids hit theirs or a bit of both, but it was NOT a good day here.
To such a […]
Now that my step-children are in college, I find myself reflecting on the often laughable, two sentence conversations that we have survived. It is amazing to hear my co-workers recite these exact scenario’s with various responses. It confirms that my step-children were not unique in their angst:
Teen: “My friends think you are stupid for not […]
Here’s a face you will likely recognize. This is Ambyr Childers, the young actress to plays Colby Chandler. Ambyr recently graduated highschool in Morrieta, California and a very talented actress for someone so young.
She has taken “mean” to a whole new level. And while there might have been five seconds this week when […]
Parenting Tweens & Teens. Been there, done that.
Written by Charlene Polanosky , and Christine Young for b5media.
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