Hey, Parents, Teen Dating Isn’t What It Was in the 90s
Recently I saw a notice online about a community forum that hoped to bring teens and their parents together to talk about dating and relationships. And while I don’t mean to be snarky, it made me...
View ArticleThis is the Best Text I Could Have Gotten From My Daughter
My daughter and I spend an awful lot of time communicating through text these days. It’s gotten increasingly difficult for her to communicate with me about thoughts and feelings and her life since...
View ArticleHow to Help Your Teen Make Friends at School: 5 Tips
My teenager is the new kid on the block this year. It’s just on the block, not in the whole city: she’s still at her same high school. But within that same school, she’s on a brand-new team. She’s...
View ArticleDear Teens, This is What I Want You To Know About Falling in Love
I see the look on your faces as you all sit around the dinner table and talk about how the Homecoming dance is coming up. I remember the excitement of the leaves changing, getting a new dress, and the...
View ArticleMy Teen’s Heart Was Broken, What Can I Do to Help?
My daughter came down the stairs, sobbing uncontrollably, her phone in her hand. “Mom, what am I going to do?” she wailed. She’d just texted her boyfriend of more than a year—the one she thought she...
View ArticleHow I Taught My Teen Daughter the Importance of Lifting Other Girls Up
My daughter had a crush on an older boy she really didn’t know well around homecoming time. He was flirting with her and she was smitten. Later, she found out he had a girlfriend and she quickly became...
View Article15 Dating Lessons The Bachelor Has Taught My Teen Daughters
For many of you, the New Year means a change in eating and exercise habits and a fresh start. For others, it means the excitement of the football playoffs and the impending Super Bowl. But then there...
View ArticleI Lean on My Friends for Support. Here’s Why I Taught My Daughter to do the Same
It’s all push and no pull, I moan to my friends when our conversation turns toward our kids, as it usually does. No matter how many times I’m reassured that it’s normal, even healthy, for a teen to...
View ArticleI Teach My Teens to Love Themselves More Than They Love Others
My son lost a good friend recently. It wasn’t because his friend moved away, or because they got into a big fight. It was because he realized that this person he’d been spending time with wasn’t the...
View ArticleBe a Good Guy and 11 Other Dating Lessons My Sons Need to Know
Dear Sons – I know we’ve talked a lot about dating before (even when you didn’t ask my opinion) but I wanted to give you your own handy-dandy written “Guide” in case you are ever wondering what I would...
View ArticleMy Son Doesn’t Have A Big Social Life And I Need To Stop Worrying
There was a dance at my son’s high school last week and he had no interest in going. He’s quit all team sports — he played them all in elementary school — and he doesn’t mind being home on a Friday or...
View ArticleOur Teens Need to Know That We Support Their Relationships
“She wants to see me today at the mall, but she’s still not sure if she wants to be my girlfriend again,” my son told me as he sat at our kitchen island reading a text from his ex-girlfriend. I felt my...
View ArticleHow I Reacted to My Son’s (Momentarily Bad) Behavior by Guiding, Not Judging
My sweet, kind and socially different son fell in love. In his junior year of high school, he attended a semester program on a farm in Vermont. He’d been struggling in high school with several months...
View ArticleIt’s Hard to Tell Your Teens What You REALLY Think of Their New Heartthrob
Three years ago, I watched my son fall in love for the first time. I could tell something was going on with him; he was dressing up a bit more and wanted to get cologne, and I could hear the low murmur...
View ArticleMy Son Got Into His First Choice College and Then He Met a Girl
As of November, my son had applied to one, and only one, college. We weren’t too bothered by the tiny number as we had no doubt he would get in and the pace of this college seemed to fit his academic...
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