You notice your teen girl won’t catch a ball anymore and it seems like your son has started wetting the bed. You start looking for your 1970s version of Our Bodies Ourselves. Umm…things have changed a bit including that book.
There are so many books that are written to help teens navigate the mysterious world [...]
Few teens know exactly what they want at this stage in the game called life, but that’s no reason to shirk their responsibilities as a “Decider.”
Making decisions and owning them is what sets the people who let life happen to them apart from those who actually decide to dodge the bullets and survive. Sometimes [...]
The last interaction you had with someone was absolutely horrible. What’s the first thing you say the next time you see them?
For many teens they act like nothing happened, this may especially be the case for boys who feel the past is the past move on already! It’s just that behaviors tend to repeat themselves [...]
I once saw this woman on Oprah who could make rooster sounds. She could make a lot of sounds actually. Class clown stuff really.
She was good and she had perfected these noises that got her on Oprah. She left the Oprah show and was called by some entertainment show to host celebrity galas. The [...]
Few people understand the concept of knowing their worth.
What you are worth can sometimes mean what you are paid, but it can often mean that you, your teen is a person of value and contributes something to the community they live in. This is their school, home and possibly a work community. There’s something [...]
Somewhere there’s a family that wears coordinated clothes on Christmas and laughs at each other’s jokes while doing that fake punch in the arm. Maybe I’ll meet them one day.
As your teen’s brain gets smarter they’ll realize that the things they saw when they were teens were not what they thought they saw. The [...]
You’re teen is so much better with you even if they know they aren’t their best when you’re around. Remember they like having you around and it’s in their nature to take it for granted because well…
That’s just how they’re brain works. They take and take and take some more. This is just the way [...]
