There are many things that are positive about social media and the internet. After all, you’re reading this and I’m so happy that you are! BUT, social media is not so great when it comes to comparing and measuring ourselves, our kids, and our lives. Social media is an illusion of “happy,” “perfect,” and “my life is great.” Social media…
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I know you’re wondering how time has flown by so quickly. Your adolescent seems to have grown up in front of your eyes. If you’re finding yourself contemplating how you’ve been doing as a parent lately, wondering if you’ve done enough, I’m here to tell you don’t worry. You see, while I don’t have children of my own just…
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Communicating with our teenagers can be a challenge. At times, it can seem impossible to get them to open up and talk to us. When we’re lucky and they finally do, they can say some things that are really hard for us to hear. When our child says something that upsets us, it’s easy to feel like we’ve blown it…
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Here’s a no-brainer: moms wear a lot of hats. There’s one particular mom-hat that is absolutely crushing our skulls in these days of pandemic parenting. I like to call this hat the I validate your pain but also I promise that the world is not conspiring against you so listen to your trustworthy mom as I provide some encouragement…
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Homeschooling is becoming more widespread due to COVID-19. It’s a good alternative for elementary and middle school students if one parent can be home and take control of the homeschool curriculum. But, what if your child is in high school or college, doesn’t want to be doing school from home, and is feeling stressed at the thought of another…
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My dear son, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that you are a freshman in high school. How on earth we got here so fast, I’ll never know. You’re still my boy, you’ll always be. But every time I look at you, it seems you’re transforming into this young man. It’s happening right before my eyes….
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Maybe it was when his voice began changing and getting deeper or the summer when he grew taller than me. Or perhaps it was the night when he closed the book and kindly broke the news that he no longer wanted to read The Hobbit with me beside his bed. Or could it have been when he began to…
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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! If your kids are feeling discouraged and unmotivated with everything going online. How can we make e-learning actually fun?…
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I was not diagnosed officially with generalized anxiety disorder until my early 30s. Throughout my teens, I now realize how some of my behavior was directly related to feeling anxious, and working with teens has just reinforced what I discovered. Parents, here are 15 things your teen with anxiety wants you to know. Some things teens with anxiety do may…
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I suspect most parents of teens and tweens are contending with the “Zoom Gloom” of quarantine. We’ve developed a love/hate relationship with communicating via screens. Screens sap our energy and yet they allow us and our kids to access worlds beyond the insular place we occupy in the pandemic. My husband and I are parents to a 12-year-old girl and…
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It may seem that having a conversation with your daughter about just about anything these days is difficult! There are the eye rolls, the “yep, I know” comments and the “you just don’t get it” remarks that make it feel impossible to communicate. However, if you have a tween daughter you may have noticed that things are changing for…
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Dear kids, We all hoped things would be better by now. After surviving such a traumatic spring and agonizing summer that changed our lives drastically, we looked forward to the new school year with anxious anticipation. We thought Covid-19 would be under control and by the time school began, you’d be able to enter through the doors of the actual…
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