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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I’m so happy you’re here, I just want you to know that this post contains affiliate links. That means that if you click and purchase I will be compensated for being the helpful reason you found these amazing gifts! The Best Gift Guide for Tween Girls There’s nothing harder than trying to figure out what a girl wants, and…
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What Are Filter Apps Doing to Our Mental Health? An Alarming New Trend All Parents Need to Know Tweens and teens live in the virtual land of social media, and the trend of selfies has taken over the internet. Our kids are not the only ones posting pictures on social media, but adults have joined the masses in sharing their…
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Four Ways We Are Getting In Our Kid’s Way Parenting teens takes patience, endurance, and intention. Sometimes our own personal issues and experiences come into play, which can result in making critical mistakes, hindering growth and independence in our kids. When decisions are based more on the parent’s needs rather than the teen’s development, it can prevent the much-needed opportunities…
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Vaping is one of the latest issues, in an already long list of issues parents have to worry about. We feel increasingly powerless over this one since it is so hard to know if your teen is vaping and certainly because it is much more available to teens than it should be. Teens are vaping in large numbers as it becomes…
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Common Parenting Mistakes with Teens and Tweens and What Parents Can Learn from Them Parenting teens can be challenging, leaving ample opportunity to make mistakes. It’s important to identify our mistakes so we can grow in awareness and learn to break unhealthy parenting patterns. This will bring healing and build closer relationships with our kids. All parents want the best…
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Gift Guide for Tween Boys Not all tween boys are the same, and not all gifts are the same. We can spend hours searching for that perfect gift, ask every Facebook group, try to pin down our kids, and still be left wondering. Lucky for you we took the pain out of how hard it can be to shop for…
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Apple Introduces a New Parental Control App for iPhones and iPads With ios 12 Called Screen Time Apple’s iPhones and iPads feature new parent controls through iOS 12, released September 17th, with an app called Screen Time. The new app will give parents more information, on their kids’ device usage, as well as give parents more options to control where and…
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All Our Kids Will Face the Mighty Power of Fear My sixth-grade son stood on stage to sing a song before the entire middle school for their annual talent show. This is no small school. It’s an overcrowded populous of around 1500 kids who packed the gymnasium along with who knows how many teachers. Three years prior, my daughter…
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*Spoiler Alert! Since seeing the trailer on Netflix a week ago, I had this tug to watch “Sierra Burgess is a Loser.” I was scared I would be disappointed, or that it would just be another version of the ugliness that are high school mean girls. But tonight, when my son said, “Let’s watch this” I thought, why not. I…
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My Daughter’s Graduation Was Exciting for Her, But Excruciating For Me As the principal’s speech moved to the fifth-grade class, I felt a catch in my throat and tears welling in my eyes. A familiar chasm between sadness and joy, we are old friends. I felt joy for the pride in my girl and sadness that my baby is growing…
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Making mistakes is a natural and essential part of learning, growing, and life. So how do you respond when your kids mess up? Remember when you were embarrassed by temper tantrums in the grocery store? When they get older, the mistakes change, but sometimes we wonder the same thing. Are we messing up as a mom? Is that why…
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