INTRODUCTION: Have you ever LOOKED at your teen and like, “What The??!!?” — You’re Not Alone Teenagers are not easy to take care of and neither is parenting one! Now one minute they’re belting out the laughs in the kitchen and the next minute they’ve marshaled themselves off to the bedroom because you knocked too loudly. The next…
Introduction There’s a phase of parenting that no one warns you about — when your sweet, chatty child starts to morph into someone you hardly recognize. Conversations turn into arguments, laughter hollows out to silence and even the simplest request seems like a war. You begin to tiptoe through your own house, afraid of the…
Introduction: The Storm and Calm of Adolescent Life Every parent eventually wonders, “What happened to my sweet child?” The teenage storm — mood swings, defiance, silence and sudden independence. But there is a profound transformation beneath the turbulence. Adolescence is a time when the brain rewires itself, identity forms, and independence blossoms. However, without direction,…
