By Whitney Fleming When It Comes To Raising Teens, It’s All Personal
Right before I was married, my mom told me that she read a letter I sent to my college-aged brother…
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By Bambi Loveday Our Teens Need Jesus and We Can Show Him to Them
Being a teenager is hard. I sat at the DMV with my daughter, waiting for her number to be called…
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By Rachel Gossen All of a Sudden I’m Mothering Men
I was up before the sun again. It is creeping up slower now, as the month is drawing to another…
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By Priscilla Baker Parents, We’ve Created “The Loneliest Generation”—Here’s What We Need To Do About it Now
This post originally appeared on the author's Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob…
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Parents Are Applauding a Colorado High School That Forfeited a Game After Students Were Caught Vaping
If you are the parent of a teenager, you have most likely heard about teens' rampant use of vaping. Kids…
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Our Kids Need Us to Stop Performance Based Parenting
Parents, can I ask a favor? Can we stop pushing the goalposts back for our kids? Can we stop changing…
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I Wouldn’t Want to Switch Places with My Teenagers
If you are the parent of a teenager, you've probably lectured them a few times about how hard the real…
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A Big Family is a Little Extra Work—and a Lot of Extra Love
“Five kids??” “You know how this happens don’t you?” “Did you have all five on purpose??” A head shake and…
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By Meredith Bleakley Use the “Rule of 5″—And Other Things I Want My Freshman to Know
“My stomach is full of butterflies!” “I feel like I could puke!” “Eeekkk, I’m so nervous!!” “This is scary!” Those…
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I Don’t Have Sons, But I See Your Little Boy Growing Up
I don't have any boys. My house is about as estrogen-charged as one can get with three teenage daughters living…
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By Emily Collins I Was 15 When I Began Starving Myself
We stopped for ice cream on the way home from your last day of kindergarten. As chocolate ice cream dripped…
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By Patrick Danz Thanks For the Memories, Coach Hart
Recently, my mom shared some sad news: my seventh-grade basketball coach passed away in late March. It was one of…
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