Being a good parent means being a safe harbor for your teen and helping them to understand the world. Here are 7 conversations you need to have with your teen before they leave home.
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Top Gifts for The High School Freshman
If you have a brand new freshman attending high school this year, here are a few items to help them start the year right.
How to Build Trust With Your Teen
You have to build a level of trust with your teen. “Do as I say not as I do” is not going to wash with these independent individuals.
How to Show Kindness and Compassion for Moody Teens
If you have ever lived with a moody teen, you know that kindness and compassion can be tested to the limits some days. Here are a few things to keep in mind when dealing with your teen.
Keeping Your Teen On Track: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
As parents, we try to keep our teen from going down a dangerous path. Here’s what you can consider doing to try and keep them on the right path.
5 Fitness Tips for Teens
If you’ve ever tried to get a teen to do something, you know it takes an act of Congress some days. Keep them active & healthy, even if they don’t do the chores!
Teaching Teens to be Financially Streetwise
“If I only knew then what I know now.” This statement is especially true when it comes to credit. Do you remember getting your first credit card? Did it feel like a license to spend money you didn’t have? Then before you know it, the rude awakening arrives in the mail: the credit card bill, […]
Win Extra Brownie Points with These Unique Gift Ideas for Kids
Buying presents for children might seem relatively easy to begin with. But then suddenly everyone else seems to have the same idea as you. Or each time a birthday, or Christmas, or another special occasion comes around, your choices get more and more limited. Children only need so many teddy pairs, pairs of shoes and […]
Birthday Gift Ideas for College-Going Teens
When your college-going teen leaves home for the first time, it is a monumental step. Give them a piece of home with these gift ideas.
This Mom’s About to Lose It
I try to be patient and understanding on a daily basis with my brood because they require it – on a daily basis. It is not easy. There are days such as today, when I am to the point where I am ready to just *SNAP* from other events going on in my life, where […]
What Were You Thinking?
I will be the first to admit to anyone, when I thought about having children, I wanted girls. I’m a girl. I know girls. I never even THOUGHT about the possibility of having boys. I just automatically assumed that God and I were on the same wavelength and I would only be parenting girls and […]
