The next Parent Class To Help Your Teen starts September 27th!
Parent: “How was your day?” “How are you doing?” “What do you think about…?” Do you want to…?” Teen: “Sure”, “Fine”, “I don’t know” “Huh?”, silent shrug. This aspect of parenting teens can be terribly frustrating. So how do we often deal with our frustration? Let it go until we can’t any more then… yell,…
A comprehensive survey about teens and social media was just released from Common Sense Media. There were a lot of interesting findings. Check out the infographic or the full report if you’re interested. It turns out that most teens believe that social media has a positive effect on them overall. It’s actually not even close. This is consistent with a Pew Research…
How are you feeling about school starting up? If you’re like most of the families I’ve been talking with, you may have felt like the summer has gone relatively smooth and your child has seemed happier and less stressed overall. You may also be concerned about the start of school and how this added stress will impact…
I hope as a starting point we can agree that your child staring at screens past bedtime on school nights is not a good thing. I find that parents are generally in unanimous support of this notion. Yet, sooo many kids are sleeping with their phones nestled next to them like their favorite blanky. If…
Perhaps the hardest thing about parenting teenagers is the amount of uncertainty involved. It can be incredibly difficult to know how your kid is really doing right? If they’re smoking pot, are they just experimenting, socializing or self medicating? Is it really affecting their brain (yes)? How much? Even if they are getting good grades,…
In the last article I wrote, I clarified what adolescence is and isn’t. I also broke down this long transition to adulthood into three phases (which I took from Laurence Steinberg in his book Age of Opportunity, the number one book I recommend for parents with teens). I focused on phase one which is about 12-14. Click…
