5 Steps to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
When you first become a parent, you know what your baby is doing every minute of the day and night because you gaze lovingly at them, or you stare at them through bleary, sleep-deprived eyes, but...
View ArticleTweens And Cell Phones: Should You Give In To The Pressure?
It is not uncommon to see tweens and cell phones in nearly every city in America, but that does not necessarily mean that your child needs one. A phone is a big responsibility and there are a few...
View ArticleRaising a City Tween (It’s Pretty Great)
We live in NYC. We chose to live here specifically for the diversity, and I thought I would be giving up some of the benefits of suburban living. I was wrong. We knew we wanted to have a child and we...
View ArticleBuilding a Back to School Tradition
It seemed like it was just the end of the school year and now, the kids are headed back to school. Regardless of whether your child is entering kindergarten or transitioning to middle or high school or...
View ArticleYes, Your Tween Will Stop Talking to You…
My eldest son is talking to me again and I’m thrilled. Don’t worry, it’s not like we had a fight. But he had stopped talking to me for a while. And I really missed it. Let me back up and say that he...
View ArticleThere’s No Tiger Mom in this House
Let me put one thing on the table before I go any further: I’m not a Helicopter Mom. I have never been and I will never be. I read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua a few years ago, and I...
View ArticleBrace For a Big Change
It’s the phrase parents & tweens dread hearing from the dentist: I’m going to refer you to an orthodontist. Braces are the inevitable outcome of that conversation, and no matter how you feel about...
View ArticleUsing a Virtual (world) Mistake to teach a Real Lesson
When your 12-year-old daughter tells you an older man made a pass at her, you’re usually upset. Me? I wasn’t thrilled, but I was perfectly fine with it. Why? Because the pass was made by a virtual...
View Article5 Non-Annoying Ways to Monitor Your Tween’s Tech Use
This is a guest post by PR pro and writer, Elissa Freeman. You can follow her on twitter at @ElissaPR My 12 year old daughter is an average tween: slowly exploring adolescence, coming to grips with...
View ArticleQuality Time with your Tween
It is a running joke between my husband and I that we maybe shouldn’t have procreated because we’re both talkers and apparently when talkers reproduce they create Uber-Talkers. Since she uttered her...
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