Dear kids, There are so many things I’m trying to teach you during these teenage years, but there’s one life-changing lesson that stands out above the rest because it will make your life richer and more fulfilling. It will give you strength when you so desperately need it, and it will bring you clarity when life gets messy, blurry,…
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Last Minute Unique Holiday Hostess Gifts! How many times have you been running out at the last minute or arriving late to a party because you didn’t have a host or hostess gift? This has happened to me way too many times and I’ve learned to have a special something on hand. Make the holidays easier and stock…
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Get the Holiday Gift Your Teen or Tween Really Wants With the holiday season fast approaching, parents of teens are once again at a loss for what gifts they can get their kids that they will actually like. I have purchased too many gifts in years past where my teens politely sighed, “Thanks mom” and tucked them away under their…
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Make Thanksgiving Fun and Festive Gift Guide Fun and festive, I can always use more of that around my house! I’m committed this Thanksgiving to focusing on what really matters – connecting with my family and making my home a warm, inviting place. I love to surround myself with things that make me happy and that extends to my…
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Some days it can be challenging enough to like our teenagers let alone cherish them. Sure, we love them like crazy, but liking them all the time, well…on the days they’re yelling, ignoring us or refusing to do anything we ask, it can be tough. But someday, they’ll be gone. Our time is now. Let’s seize these moments…
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7 Things You Can Do To Foster Better Relationships in Your Family Having tween and teen siblings can be, shall we say, challenging? Sibling rivalry has been an age-old challenge and raising teenagers growing up in the same household can feel like a bloody battleground. There are days I want to wear some armor and dive into the war…
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If Your Kids Are Always Fighting, Here’s What You Need to Know You’ve had a good day and pick your kids up from school, they get in the backseat and before you know it, they’re off to the races fighting with their sibling. All they did was sneeze or look at them the wrong way and now they’re spewing…
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Our Tweens and Teens Need More Sleep and Here’s Why If there’s one thing we can be sure of with parenting our tweens and teens, it’s their ongoing exhaustion and their need for more sleep. High schoolers suffer the most, beginning their school day as early as 7:00 am, which can be a grueling literal wake up call to…
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The Perfect Gift Guide for Teen Boys Teen boys can sometimes be hard to shop for, especially when their request is always cash. But it really is nice to wrap a few gifts that they will enjoy having and unwrapping. Below we have a list that includes fun and inexpensive as well as a few more expensive ones to…
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How The Teenage Brain Impacts Behavior Parents often complain about their teenagers acting rude, impulsive, and unpredictable at times, which can be maddening and exhausting when raising a teen. Thankfully, research and brain imaging over the last decade have helped make sense of a teenager’s confusing behavior. It suggests that teens aren’t intentionally being impulsive, forgetful, or irrational, but…
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To The Teenager Who Really Wants to Do Everything From the moment you get up to the late-night hours, you go. Your non-stop schedule full of hard classes, work, sports, youth group, and an active social life keeps you going all day, every day. In your spare time, you want to feed the homeless, build houses, and…
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The Best Gift Guide for Tween Girls There’s nothing harder than trying to figure out what a girl wants, and sometimes it’s nice to give them a little surprise they didn’t even know they needed! Tween girls are no longer little girls yet not quite teenagers either. So we compiled a list of great gift ideas that are not…
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