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Teenagers and Trouble -Parenting Your Teenager: Trust or Bust
Trust is a crucial element during the sometimes difficult time of the teen years. If damage to trust occurs, first, remember that this is a common, although serious, occurrence.
Teenagers and Trouble - How Parents Can Keep their Teens Out of Trouble
Parenting teenagers can be challenging. Some parents keep overly-tight reins as they live in fear of their teenager becoming involved in risky behavior. Others take a loose attitude, letting kids have too much free rein. Finding the balance isn't always easy, but what parents do matters a lot! Here are some tips for positive actions parents can take.
What Are Teens Hiding on MySpace
Is the Social Networking Site a Menace to Kids or Getting a Bad Rap?
Why parents must mind MySpace
Posting too much information on social networking sites may be dangerous
Adults question MySpace's safety
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Teens hang out at MySpace
article from USA Today By Janet Kornblum
When kids surf, think safety first
Teenagers and Trouble -
Parenting Tips: Taking a Management Approach with Teenagers, Part 1
Do you know the critical difference between controlling and managing a teenager. Here's a tip for managing the teenage years.
Teenagers and Trouble -
Parenting Tips: Taking a Management Approach with Teenagers, Part 2
Do you know the difference between controlling and managing teenagers? Read on to discover how to apply this difference in your own family.
When kids surf, think safety first
article by Lawrence J. Magid,
San Jose Mercury News
Raising Teenagers? Stay C.A.L.M.
Parents of teenagers looking for information on how to stay in touch and keep the relationship positive will find some great tips here.
Is it a Child? Is it an Adult? No it's an Adolescent
Over the 35 years that I have been working with teenagers and their families, I have been perplexed when everything seems to go wrong for parents who so far had seemed to have been successfully parenting their children. They seemed to have all the correct strategies and plans in place, but suddenly war breaks out in the home. The article looks at one of the most common but often overlooked causes and looks at ways of overcoming it.
Navigating in the New World: Parents and Teenagers Growing Together
One of the most prevalent myths of our modern culture is the one that says, "Adolescence is a time of inevitable conflict." You will hear doctors say it, and teachers, and therapists, and pastors, and even parents. It seems that nearly everyone has bought into this myth.
Parenting Your Teenager: FAQ's from Parents of Teenagers
My husband and I are at a loss as to what to do with our two teenagers. They have been great kids and all of a sudden it seems like we are in teenage hell! We keep fighting to see the kids we once knew, and they keep fighting to get
Tips for Parents of Teenagers: Don't Just Survive - Thrive!
Some parents of teenagers can't wait for their kid's teen years to be behind them.This needn't be a time to dread, or to just "survive." Read these tips to see how you can enjoy this time and even THRIVE!
Teenagers Taking Risks
It can be hard being a parent with a teen going through what I term the 'I'm Invincible' phase. This is the phase when teens start doing scary and dangerous things (according to us parents) as a way of testing out their physical limits.
Parenting Your Teenager: Universal Laws for Parents of Teenagers
One of the greatest needs of teenagers (after music, screen time and the phone) is a strong sense of belonging.
MySpace: Your Kids' Danger?
(CBS) It all started on the social networking Web site MySpace.com, reports CBS News correspondent Sandra Hughes. A 14-year-old girl began receiving graphic messages from a much older man, asking whether she was "OK with me being 38?
Monitoring Your Teens for Drug Use Without Appearing to be Spying
Even if your teenagers do not use drugs, you still need to keep an eye on them. It is much better to realize that things could change, and anticipate that your teen COULD become a user. Essentially,...
After-School Care for Teens; It's 3:30, Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?
Do teenagers need after-school care? You bet! Between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays is when most high-risk behavior occurs. Middle-school age kids, in particular, need adult supervision, and they can benefit from opportunities for safe time with friends, homework help, contact with positive adult role models and creative programs. Explore the "Why's and Where's" and the issues around after school care for teens.
Protect Kids On MySpace
Predators looking for teenage girls or boys have a tool that makes it very easy for them to find and groom their victims and millions of teens are playing right into their hands.
Do Teens Have Rights?
Why is it, that as parents we feel it is some form of a violation against our teenager’s rights to randomly drug test them, go through their rooms or search their cars?
Sleepovers
why would my 16 year old want to have a sleepover?….answer…because they don’t want to come home from doing something they don’t want you to know about….whether it be drinking….doing drugs, or just, out at all hours of the night without a curfew and never having to be accountable for where they are at...
Keeping Your Humor During This Crazy Time
I’ve come up with a few ways (to make me chuckle) and keep a watchful eye on my ever so resourceful teen. So, all of us being responsible parents, we get our children a cell phone so that we can know where they are at all times...
My Space Obstacles
When you find your child’s MySpace and it happens to be set to “private”, you need to ask yourself….what doesn’t my child want me to read?
MySpace has this option for younger teens, if you log on and tell them that you are 14...
Teenager Phase
The Webster’s dictionary tells us that a phase is a distinct stage of development, a temporary attitude, manner, or behavior pattern.
With this knowledge we ask ourselves, how long is temporary?
MySpace, Facebook, Weblogs for Teenagers; What do Parents Need to Know?
MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, LiveJournal…blogs, social networking… "What does this all mean?” parents wonder. “And do I really need to learn about this?”
Teenagers in America
"Family Matters" was the headline that caught my attention in the newspaper. That's the name of my radio program here in California's central valley. It was interesting enough for me to buy the paper and read the story.
MySpace plans new rules to thwart predators
MySpace.com is planning new restrictions on how adults may contact its younger users in response to growing concerns about the safety of teenagers who frequent the popular online social networking site.
MySpace is partnering with Seventeen magazine
MySpace is partnering with Seventeen magazine, the National School Board Association and the National Association of Independent Schools to launch a new safety campaign aimed at warning and educating teenagers about the dangers of the Internet.
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