Adventures in Parenting

The spirit of meanness comes out in the best of us when we can be mean while remaining anonymous.
Just look at ourselves when we drive. We feel little hesitancy in cursing other drivers and giving them dirty looks or gestures, while remaining inside the safety and privacy of our cars,  Most of us wouldn’t be [...]

A caller on the radio talk show had this question:
She was very excited to have landed the lead role in a community theater. The problem is, there is one kiss with the leading man required. Her husband objected to her taking the role. What should she do?
When I heard the dilemma, my first thought [...]

A mom asked me, “How do I talk to my daughter in college about sex?”
This mom wanted to warn her daughter not to have promiscuous sex.
As with many subjects that we want our kids to learn, a straight lecture is usually not the best method. Don’t we simply tune out people that we don’t want [...]

Should we teach our teens about using condoms? Isn’t it better to teach them about safe sex since they are going to have sex anyway?
Kara, an abstinence educator, tells it like it is in a letter she wrote to Dr. Laura. It gives us the right perspective about what we should teach our children.
Here is [...]

Imagine this, if you can:
Your daughter gets ready to leave the house in an outrageous outfit showing way too much skin, to say the least.
You reel on her and yell, “You are not going out of the house like that! You look like a slut. No decent boy will respect you.”
Your daughter pauses, looks at [...]

Male high school teachers have a very tough job. I especially feel for their wives.
When 17 and 18 year-old girls wear tank tops, tight clothes, and short shorts, do you think the men teachers, even the most moral ones, would notice? How can the wives of the teachers compete with these young beauties?
Recently at a [...]

I am honored to have today’s post written by Margit Crane, M.A., M.S., M.Ed. She is a family relationship coach, speaker, author (HELP! My Teen Has Been Abducted By Aliens!), workshop leader and acclaimed expert on teens, ‘tweens, and their parents. She is the founder of Rock The World Coachingg™ and is also known as [...]

It’s about prom time - do you dread it or do you enjoy it?
I survived the ordeal when my daughter went with a group of friends to her prom last year. I didn’t wait up all night worrying. I give that job to my husband.
As parents we always worry about practical concerns of safety when [...]

If you have a 16-year-old, I bet you’ve grown more than a few white hairs worrying about your teenager getting his/her driver’s license. I know I have!
My son was in a car accident recently, thank God everyone was alright. It could’ve been worst. But it’s one of those phone calls you don’t want to [...]

I asked my 18-year-old daughter today what is the hardest year in her life, so far. She said definitely 6th grade. She had to adjust to starting middle school, she didn’t have any close friends, and she got her first C on her report card in one of her classes.
Middle school years are well-known to [...]