Beyond Allowance: Teaching Teens Money Management
How to make the transition from full dependency on parents to becoming a young adult who can manage money? Here’s how to start. With allowance and More.
How to make the transition from full dependency on parents to becoming a young adult who can manage money? Here’s how to start. With allowance and More.
Depression, like any other medical condition, can impact your ability to parent the way you want to. You and your kids can get through it, I promise.
It is the time of year when you begin to hear complaints from the kids about their teachers. “My teacher hates me!” Do you step in or let them work it out?
One of the hardest lessons for my teens is that, sometimes, there are some things more important than being right.
Sure, we have a color-coded family calendar hanging in our kitchen… but the events I most wish I could schedule remain maddeningly unpredictable.
Throughout this homeschooling journey, I have learned the only sure-fire way to fail is never to try at all. It is why a solid education requires a sustained effort, regardless of where that education occurs.
As teens leave behind ever-widening digital footprints, do their interactions deserve privacy? I don’t think so, and my kids know where I stand.
Worried that your teen is the only one whose lunch isn’t Pinterest-worthy? Allow me to make you feel a lot better about your life (and lunch) choices.
LICE, is a four-letter word for a reason. We wade through all the myths surrounding lice leaving you with the truth and how to get rid of the buggers.
It’s not that you’re trying to be embarrassing, really, it’s just that your teenager is obligated to be mortified about your existence. Minimize the pain.
The truth is that we all have times when we handle ourselves badly and our kids pay the price. The goal is to find a way to make things right and move on.
It is inevitable. We all face disappointments in our lives, many times out of our direct control. How we handle those disappointments is up to us. Teaching our children to weather setbacks and failures is one of the more important jobs we face as parents.
Recognizing my own negative body image issues and instilling a healthy self-image in my 13-year-old daughter.
Apparently I’m not the only parent alone in my sentiment of being mystified by grade school math. Here’s how to help your grade schooler without having to go back-to-school yourself.
Give your kids a break from technology and rediscover these old school toys.
There is a misconception that homeschooling is only for the privileged few, but homeschooling is an educational option for single-income, as well as dual-income households.
You may dread the appearance of a kid with a glossy brochure of wares on your doorstep, but school/activity fundraising is here to stay. Here’s why it matters.
How do you help your middle schoolers deal with their roller coaster of emotions and experiences?
Watching teens wade into the dating pool is a special kind of agony. Mine may roll their eyes at me, but these are the things I think they need to know.
This Thanksgiving and beyond, I am grateful that we are “The House” for my teens and their friends. What does that look like?