You see it everywhere, cruel Facebook comments, nasty text messages and hurtful words exchanged in just about every online form available. Our children, teens and young adults are privy to some pretty harsh treatment these days. As parents we need…
As teens and tweens navigate the slippery road to adulthood, they receive many mixed messages on how to look and how to act. What made them unique in elementary school could cause them to be a social outcast in middle…
The Swimsuit Edition Something very special changed for us this summer. We bought our first girl’s swim suit. In the early years, both kids wore full body sun block swim wear! The boy and I still do. But we’re boys! …
Buy Your Own Con Confession time: I’m a con artist. No, seriously, I am. More than 10 years ago, I wrote a story called ‘140mph Lightning Bugs’… You know how lightning bugs look like streaks when you’re driving through them…
Like it or not, at some point in the future, your child is going to come to you with puppy dog eyes, asking if they can have a cell phone pretty please? They’ll give you lots of reasons why they…
So by the time this post comes out, my daughter will be thirteen years old. It has been a journey. From the time I birthed her, to her thirteenth birthday (Mother’s Day 2013), my daughter has taught me so much…
Ah… traveling with teens and tweens! The ol’ family vacation can turn from paradise into a Griswald vacation in no time flat if you don’t prepare. But why not get your teens and tweens involved in the planning? Read what…
Relatively speaking, cyberbullying is a new phenomenon. Bullying, however, has been around since the beginning of time. It refers to the tendency some people have to intimidate, harass, stalk, control and sometimes harm other individuals, using a number of methods…
