Teens

Is Your Exhausted Teen Getting Enough Sleep

Our Teens are Exhausted How to Get Them More Sleep

Parenting teens is HARD.  One thing that makes it even harder is when your teens are exhausted from lack of sleep.  If there is one thing that is epidemic with teens, it is overstress and lack of sleep and it is clearly affecting their mental health at a time in life when they are struggling to […] Read more…

How Your Divorce Affects Your Teen

Helping teens navigate a divorce situation is something I’ve been wanting to write about for a long time, but it’s an area where I had zero experience.  My parents were married until they died and my husband and I have been married for 35 years.  So I reached out to an expert for a guest […] Read more…

Moving with Teenagers

5 Tips for Moving with Teenagers

Parents understand that teenagers can get a bit hard to deal with. They’re in a stage in their lives where they want to explore their independence, which can come off in the wrong way. And if we’re doing a big life transition like moving with teenagers, this can be difficult for them to adjust to. […] Read more…

18 Ridiculously Useful Gifts for Men

With three grown sons, a husband and two grandsons, I have a whole houseful of guys to buy gifts for all year ’round.  So I am always on the lookout for any ridiculously useful gifts for men.  In so many ways, I think guys are a lot harder to buy for than women, so I […] Read more…

Dealing with Adult Children Living at Home

One of the most often overlooked parenting challenges is dealing with adult children still living at home with you.  It may be that they went out into the world and came back (yo-yo kids) – sometimes with kids or spouses along for the ride.  Or maybe they are the “failure to launch” kids who are […] Read more…

How to Survive Your Son’s Eagle Project

Now that it’s been a few years since our sons Eagle Project, I can look back with a bit more perspective.  I can see some of the things we did well and a few areas where we pretty much crashed and burned. One thing I can tell you is that these Eagle Projects are HARD. […] Read more…

New Year’s Motivation – Manage Your Money

This is the second post in our New Year’s Motivation series.  After weight loss, I think people’s #2 resolution is to recover from their holiday debt, and learn how to manage your money.  I feel it certainly is a worthy goal.  To me, managing your money is less about getting rich and more about ensuring […] Read more…

What do we OWE our Adult Children? Interesting thought - are we giving them too much or too little?

What Do We OWE Our Adult Children?

I witnessed an intriguing conversation that popped up in my Facebook feed on the topic of abusive adult children living at home.  Since I have a newly adult child (my youngest just turned 18), I thought it was time to talk about it.   What are we Tolerating from These Adult Children? This woman was […] Read more…

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