Is your tween starting to be a jerk?
Here are some typical tween milestones to put your mind at ease.
Let’s say that you’re with a friend or partner in your kitchen and you notice the house is nice and calm. You’re enjoying the quiet of the house as your child is in their room.
Sometimes this is a recipe for disaster if your children are immersed in technology or playing video games with headphones on. They could be getting bullied in their own rooms without you knowing it.
That is not to totally freak you, but…
What’s the thing Dr. Cory talks about more than anything else?
The toxicity of shame. The feeling of not being enough…being less than…comparing ourselves to others and not measuring up. Kids nowadays are going through the toxic shame spiral now more than ever.
This week Dr. Cory talks about what he calls shame triggers and how…
You need to get ahead of online predators, here’s how you do that
UGHHHHHHH. I sometimes have nightmares about the Lovely Bones. Have you ever read that? It’s a great novel, but a horrifying story about a child predator.
We hate that we have to even bring up the topic of online predators, but unfortunately, they do exist in our current society.
If you’re anything like me,
“ALL MY FRIEND’S HAVE A PHONE MOM!! YOU’RE THE WORST MOM EVER!!!!” [slams door shut].
We hear this all the time from our clients. However, the truth is, parents, you know your kids best. If your tween or teen has been begging for a phone, it’s likely because they want to communicate with friends and learn how to use all the new apps that are released asap…
“Hi, this is Katie, is Nina there?”
That’s how most of my phone calls from my home landline to my best friend’s home landline went. Neither one of us were part of the lucky few that had THEIR OWN PHONE LINE!
There were kids that went to our school whose parents had an additional phone line installed in their house so that they could receive calls on their own.
Man, I was so jealous of that. It meant that…
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