Archive for the ‘Parenting’ Category

Experience: A Teen’s Mentor (2012-2-3)

Who’s the best teacher? Mom? Dad? A teacher or coach? Sure, to some degree they’re all great teachers, but hands down there’s nothing like experience.
They say experience is the best teacher and that’s for a reason…many teens aren’t going to listen to an authority figure. Yes, they’re a little more open when there’re serious [...]

A Controlling Teen (2012-1-25)

If you have a teen that is running the household as in actually telling you what to do then you need to go find your backbone in the garage with your eighties  shoulder padded chiffon blouse.
No teen wants to be in control. It’s not in their nature. It isn’t how teens are built. They’ll do [...]

The Teen Chat (2012-1-23)

You know that feeling you get when your boss wants to chat with you on a Monday morning? That’s the same one your teen can feel when you suddenly walk in to have a chat with them. Know why?
They get this feeling for the same reason you get this feeling; You know your boss is [...]

Teen Parent Fine Print (2012-1-19)

You didn’t realize this, but you signed a contract when you decided to have your teen all those years ago. Just in case you missed it because you were so blissfully happy they were born healthy and smelled of baby smell, I have cut and paste it here for you to read carefully now that [...]

Got Teen Stress? (2012-1-18)

You know that freak out thing your teen does when you ask a simple question and they start yelling and waving their hands and ranting about how you always do this and why cant you do that because it’s so obvious they’re in the middle of …
That’s a stressed teen. Sure it’s called being a [...]

Your Teen Needs Help (2012-1-17)

Help?!!!! Unless your teen has a large building crushing their body, you may never really hear these words.
I’m not talking about a whiny teen who is nagging for you to do what they should be doing. I’m talking about the teen who doesn’t want to ask for help for fear it makes them look [...]

Here, You Need A Breath Mint (2012-1-9)

There’s that moment when you get in close to kiss someone and the birds are floating around your head and then you smell it, their breath. Ugh!
This is one example of things that involve such great tact and what grownups like to call maturity. What do you do? What do you say? How are you [...]