Should your parent check your phone? When you sit down to a family meal, are people on their devices? Do your parents follow you on social media? These are just a few of the questions from an informal survey of more than 1,000 middle and high schoolers during March and April of 2018. The responses…
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It’s your first child. Naturally, you’re going to be highly motivated to pull out all the stops, learn all the tricks and be the “perfect” parent. Since your child doesn’t come with an owner’s manual, you’ll more than likely rely on friends, family, the internet and your own ideas about what’s appropriate and what to…
How do you teach respect? Will your child’s strong will conquer you before you conquer it? As a parent, you have probably thought about these questions and experienced the confusion of trying to figure out the best way to raise your childrenAccording to psychologist and author Dr. Kevin Leman, we have arrived at a place in our society where the family focuses solely on the child. He says American parents have become permissive and democratic, and children have become sassy and en…
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What Teens Are Saying About Social Media and Their Parents
Should your parent check your phone? When you sit down to a family meal, are people on their devices? Do your parents follow you on social media? These are just a few of the questions from an informal survey of more than 1,000 middle and high schoolers during March and April of 2018. The responses…
10 Traps for First-Time Parents
It’s your first child. Naturally, you’re going to be highly motivated to pull out all the stops, learn all the tricks and be the “perfect” parent. Since your child doesn’t come with an owner’s manual, you’ll more than likely rely on friends, family, the internet and your own ideas about what’s appropriate and what to…
6 Rules to Raise Your Children By
How do you teach respect? Will your child’s strong will conquer you before you conquer it? As a parent, you have probably thought about these questions and experienced the confusion of trying to figure out the best way to raise your childrenAccording to psychologist and author Dr. Kevin Leman, we have arrived at a place in our society where the family focuses solely on the child. He says American parents have become permissive and democratic, and children have become sassy and en…