The Three Fights Every Parent Has With Their Kid and How to Stop Them by Vanessa Van Petten When I was 16 I thought it was my Dad’s goal in life to make me miserable. I was convinced that he had a running list of all the ways he could embarrass me in front of…
Category Archives: Step 3: Tweens/Teens
How to Keep Talking to Your Tween
I love, love, love the fact that Rosalind Wiseman reminds us that we matter to our tweens! Sometimes it’s easy to forget that when all they talk about is what their friends think — it seems that the only opinions that are those of their peers. I’m just starting down this road with my nine-year…
How Not to “Sweat It!”
All you moms of tweens and teens will appreciate this: I had the chance to talk to Rosalind Wiseman, my Twitter friend and also author of Queen Bees and Wannabees. She visited with several moms about how they talk to their tweens about… (no, not about sex)… about sweat! Yup, that birds and bees conversation…
How to Start Talking Birds & Bees
I pulled this video because, one, my girlfriends and I, all mother’s of ten year old girls, were JUST talking about this over lunch the other day. We were all in different places as far as having had “the talk” but agreed it was time if one hadn’t begun to share about this important subject…
How Achievement is Stressing our Kids
On the movie “Race to Nowhere”: As parents, let’s remind ourselves to avoid OVER-SCHEDULING. Less is more.
