There is a moment that your teen will need you as if they were still a child, and you will not be there for them. For whatever reason, at that moment, your absence will mark for your teen the realization that they are alone in this world. This can be a very lonely and scary [...]
You’re excited to pick up your college freshman for the holidays. Still you can’t keep from wondering, “How have they changed after their first semester of college? Freshman ten, freshman maturity, freshman attitude?”
Although you grieve the loss of your teen when you drop them off at the airport or campus, when your college freshman returns, [...]
Your teen calls and they are so excited about a trip or business venture or intimate partner. Meanwhile you’re listening and as you listen you start thinking, “this is not going to work.”
You may get to the point when you actually say out loud, “You’re joking right? You know that’s not going to work.” And [...]
Halloween is a great time to experiment with the fantasy of who your teen might be. For teens who have not considered what they might want to do with their life, this can be a glimpse into their mind’s eye of what they might like to do.
It’s always interesting to see the creative characters that [...]
If your teen is a senior, you’ve probably asked them what they want to do after high school. The “good” answer is, “Go to college.” And, this is a good answer. Parents associate a college education with more opportunity and economic stability and rightly so the current unemployment rate among college graduates is 3.1% in [...]
Men wait until the last minute to go to their doctor. Because they wait, their cancers tend to be more advanced when they are finally diagnosed. Men are dying earlier because they don’t address medical or emotional complaints. This is the same pattern seen among teen boys who are less likely to go to the doctor for sexual [...]
With some cultural exceptions, it is concerning when a teen doesn’t want to leave home once completing high school. Part of being a teen is struggling for independence and it ends with your teen having an identity separate from you, their parents. When they don’t want this independence, you have to encourage them to leave. You [...]
A teen’s job is to struggle for their independence. They struggle to take it from you, their parents. The hard part of the struggle is the struggle. Some parents aren’t giving independence away for free and this is for good reason. You’ve seen them eat dirt at three because their friend told them to. You [...]
Let’s say you weren’t able to start early and didn’t create a list while your teen was a pre-teen on things you would teach them before they left home. And if you missed preparing your teen to leave home part 2 that discussed the traits you might like to instill in your teen before they [...]
Michael Jackson History
This week was the memorial service for the great entertainer, Michael Jackson. It is possible that we learned more about Mr. Jackson this week than ever before. He was in the Guinness book of world records for several records broken, has been the celebrity to have donated the most money to charities and the single [...]
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