Archive for the ‘Teenagers’ Category

I often receive questions about raising teenagers as a single parent. A teenager was seemingly not performing well in school work despite mama making different attempts to offer tuition help. This single mom also experienced difficulty and frustration as she does not have a lot of time to check on his school work as she needs to work overtime and sometimes comes home late. On top of this, the teenager son does not seem to be responding to mom's effort of reaching out to help.
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Prepaid Debit Cards have been around in the UK for around a decade and the very first prepaid cards to be launched were developed as online spending cards for teenagers. Stripped of the regulations and maturity of today's products, these cards were meant for only one thing – to help young internet users budget their spending and activity online.
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Well, the flu season is definitely here. In our house alone, we have experienced viruses and the flu back to back. Ugh! As a parent, it can become overwhelming trying to finagle your day job, household responsibilities, and caring for sick family members. Here are some tips to keep your sanity during the flu season with your teenager.
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As a parent, do you feel like technology has taken over your teenager's world? Does your teenager spend what seems like hours texting or literally hours on the computer? Or do you sometimes feel a sense of distance in your relationship with your teenager because technology? Here are 7 tips for parents of the wired generation:
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I remember when I was young how I used to repeat…and repeat…and repeat things until I felt I had them memorized.
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Have you ever wondered which teenagers are at high risk for such behaviors as drug or alcohol use? How about which ones are susceptible to dropping out of school, becoming sexually promiscuous or even getting pregnant?
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Are you a loving but hovering parent? Parents typically are raising fewer children today and have actively pursued an only-the-best policy from infancy on. So far, the twenty-something progeny of Helicopter Parents have reaped the benefits from some of these advantages. Record numbers are attending college and the rate of teenage pregnancy is down.
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An evil is stalking the world now that wasn't here when I was a kid. Maybe it's been here all along but as a kid I never saw it lurking near the cotton fields of north Alabama. We knew what the devil was of course, from going to the West Huntsville Baptist Church every Sunday morning and evening, but I don't think it entered our minds to think he was walking down the same road as us.
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Many kids today are ill prepared for remembering large amounts of information. They spend time studying and developing an understanding of the material. Yet, when it comes time to filing it in their brains so that it's there the next day for the test, they can't do it.
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Dear DavidPaul,
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