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Feng Shui for Teenager’s Rooms
"The Martians have abducted my 16-year-old son, but I am confident they will return him at age 21, as they did my daughter." I heard this from a speaker at a conference many years ago, and I still …
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The Big Good Bye: With Kids Off to College an Empty Nest Awaits
Many of you, those of you whom this post is intended for, will be crying when you read this. This is not because I am about to dazzle you with the sort of pathos and sentimentality that would elicit t…
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Migraines: They Are Not Just For Adults Anymore
Stupid question: Do children still fake illnesses in an effort to get attention or, more likely, to get out of having to do something they dislike. Of course they must. The practice (or art, should I …
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Bad Apples and Good Parents: Can Decent People Raise Indecent Children?
I have known so many parents in my life that repeatedly, and habitually, take credit for their children's good behavior and achievements in life. I have a somewhat contrary view of assuming the acclai…
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Young People Are Always Going to Drink, But to What End?
A parent's nightmare is to safely usher their children through the elementary years, into pre-adolescence, only to have your teenager (or preteen) become a raging and clownish drunkard (or worse). Ma…
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The Problem With the Teenage Brain
Using a metallic marker for eyeliner. Dying a cat pink. Putting tuna fish in a gas tank. Throwing a leather armchair into a swimming pool after lighting it on fire. Driving a moped int…
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Pocket Change: Teaching Children About Money
As much as I value parental lessons and cautionary tales that dissuade curious children and teens from doing things like, eating stuff off the sidewalk, cheating on tests, filling up on bread, wearing…
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When Mommy and Daddy Got Hammered: Talking With Your Children About Past Drug and Alcohol Use
Just for the record, I did inhale. I figure in about ten years or so I will need to reveal this particular fact to my son, who will be entering his teen years and developing questions about drug an…
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Getting Hooked: Why Dating Among Teenagers is Just So Dated
At the moment you read these very words, teenagers and young adults across the country are having sex (hopefully not with one another). This fact is undeniable, and there is not much any one person co…
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Rebels Like Teen Spirit: Reviewing the Juvenile Justice System
There is a myth that is perpetuated regarding teenagers – specifically the idea that some are good and some are bad. Growing up in a fairly urban area in the 1980s, I could tell you my social circle w…
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