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How To Help Teenagers After A Parent Dies

02.13.2012

First there was the tragic news that Whitney Houston had been found dead in her hotel room. Immediately my thoughts went to her teenage...

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The Importance Of Mentoring Teens

02.10.2012

This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: Ever since Michelle Obama became the First Lady of the...

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Starbucks Moving from Coffee to Cabernet- - What Do You Think?

Caren Osten Gerszberg 02. 9.2012

Do you think that it is appropriate for Starbucks to serve beer and wine?

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Can Someone Give This Girl's Parents An Award?

Hayley Krischer 02. 6.2012

I've discussed the complexity in how we can educate our daughters about slut-shaming. Do we allow them to embrace the word so that it gives...

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M.I.A.'s Only Malfunction Was Us

Ann Brenoff 02. 6.2012

Is tossing out a cuss word just an easy way to show the world you really aren't a baby anymore? Or is it an insidious slippery slope on...

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I Hate Homework: A Mother's Confession

Janice Harper 01.30.2012

As Socrates said, true knowledge is knowing you know nothing. I really don't know much about Socrates, but I can tell you one thing. ...

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Alcohol Crackdown: Brilliant or Insane?

Deni Carise 01.30.2012

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently proposed cracking down on alcohol sales in an attempt to curb the city's alcohol abuse problem. It's logical...

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You Might Be The Reason Your Teen Is On Twitter

01.30.2012

CHICAGO -- Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now,...

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What's <em>Really</em> Wrong With The Teenage Mind

What's Really Wrong With The Teenage Mind

01.30.2012

Children today reach puberty earlier and adulthood later. The result: A lot of teenage weirdness. Alison Gopnik on how we might readjust...

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Teen Responsibility Doesn't Happen -- It's Nurtured

Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, MD 01.27.2012

Do you feel kids today are as responsible as kids a generation ago? This recent conversation with a mom opened my eyes to this age-old...

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Letting Go, Part 67

Susan Stiffelman 01.26.2012

I'm excited for my son to leave. I don't mean that literally; a part of me would like nothing more than for him to live at home and go...

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Your Teen's Pains May Be Caused by Friends Not Faking

Barbara Greenberg 01.25.2012

We, as adults, know that stomachaches, chest pains, and even colds and headaches can follow a string of stressful social interactions....

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Activist Parents Want Sex-Offender Laws To Be Changed

01.25.2012

Francie Baldino, a mother of two from Royal Oak, Mich., can tell you the day she became an activist against America's sex-offender laws....

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Parenting an Almost-Teenager

Jennifer Cullen 01.24.2012

Being a parent is hard. Being a parent of a 12-1/2-year-old girl is even harder.

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