Parenting Teenagers

This post: 12 things parents do to push their teen away No parent ever wants to push their kids away. In fact, every parent of teens I know fights to …

This post: When life is upside down, encourage your teen to control what they can. In the last couple of weeks, it has become blatantly clear how much in our …

  When my kids hit their teen years, I thought I was ready. After all, I was a teenager once. I recall exactly what it felt like to deal with …

This post: Not all kids develop at the same pace. Some kids are simply late bloomers. My son was recently told he made the honor roll in high school. While …

This post offers 12 scientific facts about teenagers – post updated June 2024 Any parent of teenagers knows… teens can be ridiculously hard to figure out.  Between the swinging hormones, …

This post: I’m spoiling my teen while I still can It was 6:45 in the morning… like every morning, unless I’m sick and can’t lift my head off the pillow, …

This post: parenting teenagers isn’t easier than parenting toddlers Written By: Janel Carey / Contributing Writer At a gathering this past Thanksgiving, I came to the realization that my family …

This post offers truths every teen needs to hear. Do you ever wish you could sit down with your kids and cut it to them straight? I’m not talking about …

This post: 6 battles we need to let our teens win. The clothes they wore, what cereal they ate for breakfast, what time they went to bed, when they took …

Shoulder-to-Shoulder Parenting: Why It’s the Best Way to Parent Teenagers Years ago when my three kids were still playing dress-up and rolling Tonka trucks across my kitchen floor, I struck …