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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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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