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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…

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…

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…

If parenting adolescents were a sport, many would describe it as full contact without pads (resulting in numerous concussions), fast paced, no clear start or end point with vague rules that often change mid-game without notice.…

A well meaning parent I once worked with tried to motivate her 15 year-old to improve his grades with an incentive system based on screen time. In this system, all A’s would result in…

“When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start…You start to reflect, you start to rethink your assumptions, you start…