Category: Teens
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Teen Suicide is on the Rise: Parents Learn the Warning Signs of Teen Suicide
This morning I was watching the news while I was eating my breakfast and caught the tale end of a news story about teen suicide. This isn’t the first news story that I have heard on the news about teens trying to commit suicide or actually following through with it. In fact, teen suicide is…
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Parents Were You Afraid of Letting Your Teenager Get Behind the Wheel of the Car?
I can’t believe that my daughter is old enough to get her drivers license already, it seems like yesterday that I was bringing her home from the hospital. The time has flown by quickly and she is turning into a beautiful young lady. My daughter was born with a bilateral hearing loss and wears a…
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Teenage Sexting Can Lead to Legal Problems – Parents Learn The Dangers Involved with Sexting
Does you teenager have their own cell phone or have access to the computer? If so, parents you should be aware that your child may be sending or receiving inappropriate messages, texts, photos, or videos of themselves. In order to keep your child safe, you should randomly check their phone and monitor social media applications…
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A Parents Guide: Surviving Your Teenager’s First Crush
As your tween or teenager begins to mature and grow up, they will begin building relationships with the opposite sex. It is important for your child to have these relationships so that they can develop the communication and personal skills to develop healthy long term relationships for the future. As tempting as it is, parents…
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Why Do Teenagers Steal? How Do I Handle My Teen if They Are Caught Stealing?
Continued From: “Help! My Teenager was Caught Stealing. How Should I Handle the Situation?” Parents have you ever received a call from mall security or the police department letting you know that they just caught your teenager stealing? If so, you aren’t alone and you aren’t the first parent who has had to deal with…
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Help! My Teenager was Caught Stealing. How Should I Handle the Situation?
Most teenagers enjoy hanging out at the mall for several hours on the weekends so that they can spend time with their friends and window shop, unless they have money to spend. In fact, I remember doing this when I was a teenager, I enjoyed roaming around the mall and catching up with my friends.…
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What Can I Do To Keep My Child or Teenager from Lying to Me Constantly?
Teenagers begin exerting their own voices and want to begin making their own choices. Their choices may not be the choice that you agree with and they may cover up their actions to avoid getting caught. If they are caught, they may attempt to cover up what they did and begin telling their parents a…
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Why Do Older Children and Teens Lie to Their Parents?
Parents it is very important that you have a continuous relationship with their child as they are growing up so that when your child becomes a teenager, you will know them well enough to determine when they aren’t telling you the truth. Kids will tell you a story if they think that they can get away…
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Learn the Importance of Monitoring Your Child’s Internet and Social Media Activities
If you children are using the Internet it is important as a parent to keep them as safe as possible. There are many dangers on the Internet that most kids don’t understand or care to understand because they are naive. They think that everyone on the Internet is who they say that they are and don’t…
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How Does Media Affect the Way Our Children Think?
I did an experiment once when I was in college. Well, it was both an experiment and an attempt to better myself by limiting the type of media that I watched and listened to. For two entire months I did not watch a single TV show or movie. I avoided media such as video games…