Your Teenager’s First Year at College

The first year at college is an extremely stressful time for both the parent as well as your teenager. 

Your teen is truly leaving home for the first time. He’s also leaving his friends and a world that he’s lived in and felt comfortable with for years.

For most teenagers their first year includes a new [...]

5 Tips for Single Parents With Teenagers

Single parents and teenagers – these two words bring to mind the most challenging phases of life. I know because I was raised by a single parent, and not so long ago I was a teenager. I remember the life challenges my own mother encountered as a single parent. Here are 5 tips [...]

ADHD Teenagers- 3 Parenting Tips

ADHD teenagers are faced with all sorts of problems. It is bad enough being a normal teenager but ADHD does present extra challenges. ADHD teenagers have a much higher percentage of traffic accidents, missing school and getting on the wrong side of the law. About a third of them will either be expelled from school [...]

Positive Discipline For Teenagers – Learn to Forgive Yourself

Forgiveness is a powerful tool every parent should be familiar with. Blaming yourself, feeling guilty, and expecting perfection can bring tremendous stress into your life as a parent. I’d like to share some things I have learned as a parent of teenagers. I think you will find that by applying them in your own life [...]

Why We Should All be Scared Alcoholism in Teenagers

Alcoholism in teenager is a serious topic since the new foundation of any nation is being attacked by the deadliest of all poisons. Teenagers are the future of this world if at that tender age they get into alcohol addiction their entire future will be affected and along with them the future of the world. [...]

How to Parent Teenagers?

Parenting in general can be difficult, even though there are many positives to parenting. The bond between the child and the parent, for example, can often be the most rewarding part of becoming a parent for many. For others, it is the joy of caring for someone who will continue on the family bloodline and [...]

Positive Discipline for Teenagers Lack of Respect

What Causes Lack of Respect in Teenagers?

The lack of respect teenagers show these days is certainly no secret. Today, I found myself thinking about what some of the causes could be and I identified three things I believe contribute greatly to the lack of respect found in teenagers.

Changes in Government and Society [...]

Parenting Teenagers – Good Manager But Poor Parent

Management is about managing people. Someone can be a higher flyer at work managing lots of people in important projects and yet face difficulty in managing their children especially their teenager at home. Isnâ??t managing people the same as managing your teenager? There are some similarities and yet there are some differences and that is [...]

The Art of Parenting Teenagers

The mere thought of parenting a teenager today is such a daunting task that some people may be thinking twice about having children at all. That’s a slight exaggeration, but that’s what parents see on TV and media. Teenagers have somehow been typecasted as angst-ridden, emotionally troubled kids. Parenting teens is often filled with confusion [...]

Parenting Teenagers – Parenting Advice to Help Parents and Teenagers in the New Year

As a parent of a teenager, how would you describe your relationship with your teenager last year? Did it go as well as you had hoped? Are there any areas you would like to improve in the New Year? If honesty was required, than I bet every parent of a teenager would [...]