We haven’t done a Positively Friday in a while, but it is time to get back to it! It is Friday and if you are like me, it’s been a LOOONG week. Take a few minutes and look back on the week and rather than letting all the things your kids did wrong take you […]
Did you read the story on CNN today about the Mom who sold her son’s car when she found alcohol in it? Yep, she did. When her son got his car around Thanksgiving, they clearly set out the rules - no booze and always keep it locked. Those sound like pretty good rules to me. […]
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 […]
You have heard of two’s company, three’s a crowd, right? What do you do when that applies to your own children? We are in the second week of summer vacation and I am really noticing that if any one of my kids is at a friend’s house, at camp, at Grandma’s or even just outside […]
Thanks to Parenting Teen’s author Gayle, I now have another great resource site to fully explore - Dads & Daughters. The mission of the site is to help foster the relationship between Fathers and their Daughters.
In addition to many helpful articles and resources, there is a quiz that Dads can take - kind of like […]
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 […]
As my son gets older, I have noticed that his sleep habits and needs are changing. How much sleep does your teen get a night? Do you have a set bedtime requirement each night or does your child go to sleep when tired?
While we were on Spring Break, he must have been banking his sleep. […]
Just a little thinking out loud here. Are we too protective of our tweens and teens now days? And is it because times have changed or is it because we are just paranoid? Or is it just me?
Thinking back on my childhood, I can remember riding my bike all over our busy, residential, […]
While doing my daily blog check-in, I came across four very different, but good articles on some of my favorite blogs. All of these are worth a read and don’t be shy about adding your 2 cents into the discussions either.
Parenting Teens highlights a Harvard Study on the Virginity Pledge and then questions the […]
Looking back on this weekend, I realize not only was it a busy weekend, but it was a weekend full of lessons to be learned!
Lesson #1 - Don’t go to the nurse’s office unless you are REALLY sick
Lesson one of the weekend was learned by my son - a really smart, easily bored, low maintenance, […]
Parenting Tweens & Teens. Been there, done that.
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