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Let’s go back in time a moment, shall we?
Growing Up With Epilepsy
I’m 14. One day I’m watching an after-school special with my classmates about a kid with Epilepsy. He has a seizure during a basketball game. Isn’t that funny? We’re laughing. We don’t understand. We all join in on the laughter.
It’s a month later and now I’m having a seizure.
A week after that, I’m on medication that makes me fall asleep in the middle of …
Shopping Tips: How To Buy a Car for a Teenagermom • parenting • parenting • ages and stages
Picking the right car for your teenage son or daughter can be a daunting task. There are many different points to consider, and your teenager may or may not agree with the decisions that you make. However, as the person with more experience with cars…, not to mention experience
Teenagers: Information for Families Struggling With a Child’s Eating Disordermom • education • parenting • ages and stages
Included in a teenager’s hard wiring is the drive toward separation and autonomy, which often means power struggles between them and you. It’s important for you to always keep an open communication between you and your teenager.… For families who have a teenager with an eating disorder, power struggles are
Teenagers: Risks and Myths Associated With Teen Smokingmom • education • parenting • ages and stages
When parents worry about the addictions their teens might succumb to during high school, chances are drug and alcohol problems are at the top of the list. But it’s important not to forget the risks associated with teen tobacco use. There are major short-term, and long-term, problems that early tobacco…
Teenagers: 3 Ways to Help Kids Improve Communication SkillsHow does a mother explain how her tween daughter remembers every detail of an episode of iCarly, but can’t for the life of her recall where the hamper is? What’s really going on with an adolescent who quotes verbatim the whispered conversations of faraway classmates, but insists that she did…
My 10-year-old son was just a baby yesterday. The growing pains must have been tremendously painful, because, in what felt like overnight, he’s above my shoulders in height and can almost look at me eye-to-eye. What’s worse is he talks back every chance he dares—all signs he is leaving childhood…
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As adults, we know first hand that the world can be a very stressful place at times. Unfortunately, our children also face many challenging situations on a daily basis, whether it’s peer pressure, the college application process or the search for a prom date. Many people turn to drugs and
MTV…’s controversial new series Skins is receiving a lot of attention for portraying rampant teen drug use and sexual behavior without any inclusion of consequences. It has set the stage perfectly for this week’s post on the top conversations to have with your kids in 2011, which is the
Make a meaningful difference this summer by taking the Summer of Service (SOS) Challenge. Here’s how:
- Commit to do one act of kindness each week based on the week’s challenge.
- Leave a comment with ideas relating to the week’s challenge as well as your experience(s) performing it.
- Grab the SOS
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Guest post author Elizabeth Donovan is a psychotherapist, mom to three little girls, freelance writer, and owner of ParentingPink.com, a parenting site dedicated to raising strong, resilient girls.
“Mom, you are so lame! I hate you!” …
Sound familiar?
Raising a teenager is difficult. Maintaining a strong relationship in the
Double the amount you prepare for dinner tonight and take half of it to a lonely neighbor.
Date: Wed., February 29
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: 365 Manners Kids Should Know
