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Our young teens often ‘feel’ like adults, but as parents, we habitually still treat them like kids. The fact is, they are still ‘kids’ in…
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So, my mate Sarah called me last week in full meltdown mode. She’d walked into her teen’s room to grab the laundry basket and…
A ring in the middle of an ordinary day. I was sweeping leaves off the porch when my phone rang. It was a simple…
There it was. The text message that made me want to scream into a pillow: All I asked was for you to leave the…
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It happened on a Tuesday. I was staring at my daughter’s school report while reheating my coffee for the third time. There it was—another…
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If your teen is suddenly “just hanging out” with someone they met at school, or if you’ve heard the words “we’re talking” and felt…
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