- Parenting Teenager - Take Time For Your Teen!
BookWire's "Year in Reviews Magazine," December 2006 issue, lists a review of my book "Help Me With My Teenager! A Step-by-step Guide for Parents that Works."
All in all a very positive review, the reviewer states: "Help Me With My Teenager!" speaks in a clear and understandable language directly to parents. Some techniques, such as stopping whatever you're doing when your kid is ready to talk, will be difficult for already busy parents to implement. However, the extra eff... - Parenting Teenagers – Teen Eating Disorders
Eating disorders have long been a serious problem among people of all ages. However, this disease usually begins somewhere in the pre-teen stages of life, and although many adolescent boys suffer with this disorder, it usually affects and is much more severe in young girls.
People who do suffer from an eating disorder like to place blame on factors such as television and family life-styles. Although these situations do influence eating disorders, the basis for this disease... - Parenting Teenager - Getting Your Teen To Listen To You And Your Advice
The biggest challenge when parenting a teenager is how to get your teen to listen to you and your advice. You want to protect your teen from bad decisions and choices. Your teen knows it all and does not listen to you.
Between the ages of 13 and 18, your teenager will transform from a child that followed your lead and had everything done for him to a young adult that makes choices and decisions.
Where is your teenager today, and where do you want her to be when she grad... - Parenting Your Teenager - Trust vs. Control
During my phone sessions with parents, one issue comes up over and over again. Parents are frustrated because their teenager does not listen to them anymore. Some are focusing on finding answers how to regain control of their teenager while others are wondering how to build a good relationship.
It is possible to regain control by restricting your teenager and forcing him to do as you say. Parents can monitor their every move and bombard them with questions. Your teen, howe... - Parenting Teenagers - Communicating With Your Teenager
Communication is the single most important aspect when parenting a teenager.
We can give them a sense of compassion, understanding, and support. We can listen to their opinion. We can peacefully discuss a situation.
On the other hand, we can convey to them that we are disappointed and angry about what they did. We can scold them for not doing what we told them to.
The way we respond to, or address, our teenagers will determine if they will come to us for answers and ... - Parenting Teenagers – Teens And Depression
One minute your teenager will be laughing and joking along with you and the next he is in a fit of rage, yelling or crying with no warning or apparent cause. Mood swings are normal with all teenagers, but how do you know when mood swings turn into depression?
Teenagers have so much to deal with in today's society that depression can come easily. If left untreated, it can become a much more serious issue. With pressure at school, family situations, and the necessity of maki... - Parenting Your Teenager - Peer Pressure For Teenagers During Their High-School Years
Your teenager faces several areas of peer pressure during his or her high school years.
What makes it even harder for your teenager is that most parents do not understand the depths to which these pressures go.
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Cigarettes and alcohol more than likely will be among the first areas which your teenager will have to face peer pressure. With movies and television flashing images of underage smoking and drinking, most teenagers are shown only the mor... - Parenting Teenagers - Your Teenager’s First Year At College
The first year at college is an extremely stressful time for both the parent and the teenager. Not only is your teen truly leaving home for the first time, they also are leaving their friends and a world that they have lived in and felt comfortable with for years.
For most teenagers their first year includes a new area, along with a new room and roommate. College comes with a learning environment that is fast paced and a lot less personal than high school. This is sometime... - Parenting Teenagers - Your Teenager And Myspace
The MySpace phenomenon began in 2003, when an Internet visionary and UCLA graduate named Tom Anderson reclaimed the moribund http://myspace.com domain. Prior to Anderson’s initiative, http://myspace.com was a file sharing forum. The original Web site had to be disbanded in 2001 due to a poor ROI and lack of general consumer interest.
Anderson's vision of MySpace as a place where kids could network and form their own communities manifested in a huge way. In 2005, MySpace’s ... - Parenting Teenagers - Teenagers, Computers And Internet
Lately parenting forums have been buzzing with parents looking for ideas how to keep their teenagers from spending a lot of time on the computer and Internet. It seems that teenagers these days are hooked on the computer just as they were hooked on watching television just a decade ago. Whether they are logging into MySpace, downloading songs from iTunes, blogging, chatting with each other over IM, or spacing out surfing the Web, mounting evidence shows that teen computer use...
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