As A Mom To Middle Schoolers And High Schoolers, Yes, I Want Them To Be Popular When I was in school, I was friends with everyone. While I tended to hang with the ‘popular’ crowd the…
21 Gen Z Terms Every Parent Should Know Gen Zers ( kids born after 1995). have a language all their own. It’s true. And if you’re a mom who…
Why I Tell My Tween and Teen How I Really Feel About Their Friends Too many people go through life in unhealthy or harmful relationships because they don’t see what’s happening, think they’re imaging…
This Teacher Learned 75 Different Handshakes to Connect With His 5th Graders Middle schoolers can be a tricky group to connect with let alone getting them interested in doing school work. One…
Have You Heard of The ‘X Plan’? It Might Save Your Tweens and Teens One dad has figured out the ultimate way to keep his tween and teens safe by giving them an “out”…
I Didn’t Let My Son Have Social Media Until He Was 15 And I’m Not Sorry About It Like many people my teen years were awkward and full of horrible decisions. If there was trouble to be had,…
11 Things I Have Learned About Parenting Tweens You might have noticed that there are lots of articles and memes about younger kids and teenagers, but not tweens.…
My Tween Has a Sleepover Contract, And Yours Should, Too My tween’s friends are predictably a bigger influence in her life as she gets older. Seeing her friends at school…
Your Preteen May Be Dating Someone And You Don’t Even Realize It Listen carefully. If you have a 4th or 5th grade kid, and you think they’re oblivious to sex and dating,…
My Kids Think I”m a Nerd Because I’m Still Trying to Figure Out What ‘Yeet’ Means OK, moms, let’s get in formation. We need to crack a secret language code of tweens that is driving some…