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The importance of family meetings is:
* Family members get a chance to be heard. Many times teens and tweens as well as parents and younger children don’t feel like they are heard. Therefore, it’s really important to listen during these meetings.
* Family meetings re-establish the structure of the family. It is important for […]
Antonella Barba has also been in the news for risque photos that have been posted online. In another generation, young people might do crazy things and, other than the odd Polaroid, they would be lost in the ether or committed to memory. Now, it doesn’t take long for compromising images to pop up online.
Why […]
Okay, parents. It really is time for the monkeys to stop running the zoo–even if they are your monkeys.
Not a day passes lately that I don’t hear something about some little pisher causing major problems at a school somewhere. The deplorable behavior isn’t even restricted to an older group anymore. The stuff that goes on in […]
Back in the seventies Laurie Partridge smiled demurely and the only thing she shook was her tambourine. She was pretty and stylish. I idolized her. Marsha Brady had the long, straight hair I wanted and a broad smile with perfectly straight teeth. She had tons of brothers and sisters. I wanted that too. Then there was whichever […]
Lonely? While college is the free ticket with the four year expiration date to act crazy and date like there’s no tomorrow, for most students, it’s a pretty lonely time. Pretending to have fun at the keg party, when they’d rather be home watching Survivor and eating pizza. Loneliness abounds. Blog!!
Most college kids […]
How do you throw a birthday party for kids (say, 8 or 9 up to 13-14 years old) without spending a fortune or wrecking your house?
Don’t do it!
Don’t host a party for your teens or tweens at your home! That is, unless you have live in cleaning staff and a budget that includes a […]
Birds do it, bees do it…
Children are developing secondary sexual characteristics earlier now than at any other time in history, and socializing with the opposite sex starts younger now than it did when you were a kid. In addition, boys are being held back a year in school as a trend, so that they boys […]
It’s no longer just “I’m away from my computer right now.” Internet users everywhere (especially the late teen and twenties set) tell the world, or at least all their buddies, everything from their romantic status to their showering and eating habits on their away messages. People also use their away message as an arena to […]
Bullying used to be limited to the schoolyard, but with the online world now the domain of all school age children, it makes sense that bullying takes up residency in the cyber playground as well as the cement one. MySpace, Facebook and other web journals as well as the gossipy version of the old game, […]
Parents, you may already be aware of the latest deadly household implement kids are using to get high. It’s the compressed air used for cleaning computer keyboards.
I got an e-mail forward a while back about the son of a narcotics agent who died with the nozzle in his mouth. He was 12. He’d been taught better. His […]