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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
