Is an extended family gathering on your calendar for this summer? Most of these events are planned by middle agers who want their kids and grandkids to know their cousins, aunts, and…
Tweens & Teens
Teens and Cell Phones
The best way to find out how a particular phenomenon is affecting people … is to ask! Over the last couple of months, I have been asking the following question…
Building Relationships in a Digital Age
Are today’s hand held gadgets, phones, and video games interfering with our ability to connect on a deeper personal level?
Our Rules for Parenting in the Digital Age
They say if we want to know what America will be like in five years concerning electronics, we can look to Korea. Korea currently has an Adolescent Technology Addiction problem (ATA) that…
How to Get Teens to do their Chores
Are you in a dirty house? Is it because your teenagers won’t do their chores? Getting busy teenagers that don’t like being told what to do to actually do their…
College Ready … or Not … Here They Come
My daughter is a junior in high school, so we have recently begun the process of choosing a college. She has made a few visits already, and there are others…
Getting Ready for School …
Some mornings, everything falls into place. Others, not so much. Yet each morning, I get up and hope for the best. This morning seemed to be moving along better than…
Heaven is Like Grandma’s
My little girl spent the night at Grandma’s this week, which very well may be her favorite place in the entire world. She ate waffles for breakfast and got to…
Family Movie Night and Creating New Traditions
Sometimes in life, things happen and you have no control over them. Sometimes they can be good and sometimes … well … they can be not so good. When this happens, you don’t always…
How to Raise a Boy to be a Man
While trading emails this week with a friend who has two teenage boys, she commented out of sheer frustration, “Would you take my 16-year-old and knock some sense into him?”…