Need Quality Time With Your Teens? Go Camping!
I never thought I’d grow to love camping, but with a few creature comforts we’ve discovered some of our best family time with the teens, out on the road.
I never thought I’d grow to love camping, but with a few creature comforts we’ve discovered some of our best family time with the teens, out on the road.
You’re nothing like me, in all the best ways possible. Where I am shy, you are confident. Where I am weak, you are strong. Where I am laid back, you are fierce.
Team youth sports are a fantastic way to nurture multiple avenues of personal growth, but what about when your teen isn’t into them? Relax, it’s okay.
A couple of life lessons I want to pass down to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, about the importance of a positive body image and the consequences of surrounding herself with people who hurt, not help, that image.
We’re discussing The Whole-Brain Child for our parenting book club this month. It’s an engaging and informative read on how the brain develops and offers practical solutions for the most typical misbehaving issues, while explaining what is most likely going on in their brains that’s causing them to “lose their mind.”
A disorganized teen can make for an unhappy family. A few good coping strategies for improving executive functioning, everyone ends up happier, more productive.
After spending time with my friends’ needy, clingy children, I am having second thoughts about parenthood. Will I really feel that differently about my own baby?
When back-to-school means different things for different teens in the same family, the name of the game is making sure that everyone gets what they need.
Home educators should stretch toward the ultimate goal of grooming life-long learners who uphold the merits of full understanding over short-term memorization.
When you’re parenting kids with special needs, finding another family who gets it is invaluable, for both kids and parents.
Make back-to-school season a little easier this year! Help your child keep school papers organized with these free school papers organization labels.
If, “Mom, I’m hungry!” is a common battle-cry in your house, check out these tips for creating nutrient-dense snack options to soothe the savage teen.
I have done some of these things. Some I have done more often than others. Haven’t we all? Because we are human and flawed and sometimes want to take the easy way out of a situation. Or because we really don’t want to make our children upset. Or because we are just weary.
The dance of special education gets a lot more complicated as kids hit the teen years; the challenge is to balance support with increased responsibility.
Get more chore help from your teens while nagging less? It’s a pipe dream… or is it? Maybe not!
There are obviously a lot of variables that go into when a kid is old enough for his first “real” concert, but in my opinion, 11 or 12 years-old is ideal. Not only are the children probably fans of the artist and know his or her songs by this age, but they’re able to sit still during the boring wait times and they won’t get too exhausted when the hour gets late.
The most attractive asset available for homeschooling families is flexibility. Not just the freedom to change what is not working, but releasing the notion that learning, in and of itself, has a “face.”
Whenever I think one of my kids is leaving the house looking… not quite the way I might’ve hoped, I try to remind myself that they’re teens now, and it’s good and right for them to make their own choices. But, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any “rules.”
Ten steps to make moving to a new home (and state) with kids much easier. Advice to help parents and kids.
Back-to-school has always meant buying new clothes and supplies for kids, but now there’s something else parents might be expected to buy: locker decorations.