Family Relationships

Remember how difficult your teenage years were? Now, think about the added pressures your teen currently faces, such as the competitiveness to get into college and the additional pressures of social media. One way to help teens overcome these challenges, and an education buzzword of recent years, is grit, which is the ability to see […]

Over the last 20 years, the environment in which an American child grows up has changed drastically. Information technology was nowhere nearly as advanced, the internet was a dial-up modem and a mobile phone often resembled a bulky, plastic brick. The idea of combining the clunky dial-up modem and the bulky phone-brick was inconceivable. And […]

Co-parenting teens can present some unique challenges. As a parent to three girls soon entering their teens, I worry about whether I will be able to give them all the guidance they need to become self-confident, independent women. For 320 days a year, I try to parent selflessly and place them at the center of […]

Every month, we keep you informed on the latest studies and research in our “Not My Teen” blog series. Today, we’re looking at a recent Dutch study, which examines how parental snooping affects teenagers and influences parent-teen communication. Your teen comes home from school, rushes to their room and spends hours on their phone or […]

Maggie was worried about her 14-year-old daughter Mira’s perfectionist tendencies. Every day, they battled it out. Mira erased her work so many times she left holes in her papers. She wouldn’t power down her computer until her work was triple-checked, which often was after midnight. As a result, she was chronically tired and irritable. Her […]

In addition to October being National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month, it’s also National Bullying Prevention Month. While most parents are aware that cyberbullying is an issue among today’s teens, CNN’s 2015 documentary “#Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teens” suggests that parents underestimate the extent of cyberbullying in the lives of both teens and tweens. […]