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Do you think parenting for teens is a daunting task? Well, you are not alone in that ordeal because you are in the same boat with other hundreds of parents out there. It is true that parenting for teens is obviously a monumental task since it asks you to be tough and patient at the same [...]
As an adult you know you did plenty of stupid things when you were a teen. Maybe that’s why teen drinking is a growing problem. Maybe our guilt as parents prevents us from being too strict about teenage drinking. To add fuel to the fire, hundreds of times a day our children see and hear [...]
In case you haven’t caught it yet, they expect you to fail at parenting. Who are “they?” Everyone. Your in-laws, your cousins, your dog and your parents all expect you to fail miserably at raising your kid(s), especially during the teen years. It’s a motiff, a statistic, a played-out story-line that’s in every movie, novel [...]
There is nothing that adequately prepares us for the most important job there isâ??parenting. Children and teens do not come with an ownerâ??s manual, and most of our training is on the job. With our own parents as our most prominent role models, we tend to repeat what we have learned about parenting from them. [...]
Over the past few decades there has been a drastic change in sexual behavior among teenagers. It is quite glaring that teen females have gradually become more liberated and sexually aggressive, to the point of being promiscuous. There is absolutely an upheaval in the sexual context of what is socially acceptable and what is not. [...]
Until now you must have believed that high blood pressure or hypertension is a problem that occurs only with people of higher age. But that’s not the complete truth. Even teens can suffer from hypertension and related disorders. With changing lifestyles and ever-increasing pressurized living, more and more teens are falling into the trap of high [...]
A colleague of mine, Adam Jones, has been working with aggressive and troubled teens for years. He is the president of the Harbor House Foundation, “a ministry that contributes it’s resources to the health and well being of parents and students.” Adam learned very important truths for managing defiant and aggressive behavior in teens through the [...]
Today, kids start wading into the social networking waters as soon as their little fingers can type, exploring digital “communities,” many of them designed mainly to stoke their fascination with particular toys. New sites launch constantly, targeting an ever-younger audience. KINDERGARTEN THRU EARLY SCHOOL AGE The focus is on communal game-playing and earning points to buy virtual [...]
It was funny, the other day I went into my children’s bedroom and found them watching an episode of “My teen’s a nightmare, I’m moving out”! It sort of took me by surprise, seeing myself on TV a few years ago, looking at the situation unfold before me – I had forgotten so much of [...] |
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