The other day I told you why I don’t like a couple of my son’s friends. So what are we doing about it? When you don’t like the kids your teen is hanging out with you need to tread lightly. Teens rarely respond well to ultimatums. It’s better to make them think it was their […]
I needed to run a few errands today and since the kids are home on spring break (and so is Dad), I put out a call for which of my three kids wanted to join me. Granted the errands were pretty dull, but my middle child - Miss M, the 9 year old social butterfly […]
We are having an insane winter here in the Midwest. So far this winter we’ve had around 60 inches of snow. It snows about every other day. We got a bad storm yesterday that gave us another 5.5 inches. This storm also brought us ice and strong winds. So the roads are snow covered with […]
We have survived the first week of school and everyone seems to be happy so far. My only concern is that every day I have asked my son who he sat next to at lunch and he says no one. He doesn’t seem too concerned about it, but he is shy and hates to talk […]
My oldest child is entering Middle School this fall, and as much as I truly want to believe that my kids will never try drugs, skip school or become sexually active too early, you just never know. I know quite a few families who I feel did a great job being involved with their kids […]
I remember the first day of school for my son in grades Pre-K all the way through 3rd grade. Inevitably, that first day was always full of tears. Not full of tears getting ready, or actually getting to school, but it happened in the classroom - the first time the teacher asked him to write […]
Where do you get your best parenting advice? I find that my friends and respected colleagues who have been through it or are going through it now have by far the best advice. That being said, here are some of the real parenting issues some of my friends are discussing this week:
Rory at Hamelife has […]
There are days when I seriously question my parenting skills! Sometimes it has to do with giving my kids too much attention (aka making their decisions for them) and other times it is not giving them enough. Sometimes I am a great listener and sometimes I wonder what my kids think of me.
The one thing […]
I am always interested in hearing how families communicate and what seems to work best for everyone. At AskApril, she discusses the importance of having family meetings and how they are beneficial to parents and teens.
Here is the short list - she goes into more detail in her entry, which is really worth the read.
Family […]
Show of hands - how many of you have tweens or teens who have their own MySpace page?
If you did not raise your hand, you may want to look again. One of the most widely kept secrets these days is between kids who have MySpace pages and their parents.
And if you did raise your hand, […]
Parenting Tweens & Teens. Been there, done that.
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