For teens, hanging with the extended family during holidays is not all it’s cracked up to be. Teens would usually prefer to lounge around, catch up with friends, and stare at a screen. However, they often have piles of homework, are forced to catch up on chores, don’t get to see their friends much, have […]
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I just read a blog about trick-or-treating teens and it made my blood boil. OK, maybe that’s a little dramatic, but it did bother me. The author basically said “I’m so annoyed that teens would take the candy I bought for kids.” She then went on to say that she was going to post rules
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Guest blogger, Lynette Apley of Simply Placed, www.ItsSimplyPlaced.com Organization, good study habits, time management and goal setting are life skills that can help students through middle school, high school, college and beyond. As a student, being organized means finding what you need, when you need it. When you are able to find what you need,
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Journaling gives you a few minutes of solitude that engages the right side of your brain. Logic gets pushed to the side. Rules and goals go by the wayside, and the heart is allowed to speak its truth. Busy, chaotic, exhausted. These are words that many parents and teens use to describe their lives these
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In late June, I visited the local office supply store. Can you believe they were already putting up their back-to-school displays? For parents, we dread rounding up the list of required school supplies. There’s this primitive drive and panic that kicks in to make sure we round up every last item! Your child might love
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“As humans the very nature of being understood and heard is connected to our sense of self worth. When you are speaking, you have something of value to say and you want to say it to contribute and to be heard. If you are not listened to or even ignored, this hits at the heart
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Many well-meaning parents talk about popular girls in a negative way to help their daughters stop obsessing about being popular. In every workshop I teach, at least one girl raises her hand to tell me “My Mom says that popular girls are mean anyway.” They’ve even said “My Mom says that popular girls are b!tche$.”
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It angers me that I have a post “on file” for when a school shooting happens. It angers me that we are failing our students so drastically that they are turning guns against one another. It angers me that we, our society, hasn’t stepped up our game when it comes to mental health. And it
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“Girls are just mean.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this phrase. As a teen girl life coach and the mom of three girls, this hurts my heart. By nature, girls are nurturing, kind, and loving. Let’s not forget that. Our society has influenced our girls, though, to display mean girl behaviors
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Middle school is a crazy time for transition for your parenting tactics. To keep yourself sane and your relationship with your child intact, you have to change your parenting goals. Elementary years were a time when you set the schedule and you told them what to do A LOT. But, guess what, that’s gotta change.
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