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Blame game

by Robin | Oct 18, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens

~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 13 ~ Parenting is swimming upstream, especially when you're countering culture. There are so many pressures and "acceptances," it's easy to become desensitized to issues worthy of The...

Sometimes the onus is on YOU

by Robin | Oct 17, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Parenting

~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 12 ~ On day three of my #31Days parenting series, I suggested three things every t(w)een needs to hear on a regular basis (#5 on the list); today I'm offering three things every t(w)een needs to hear as circumstance...

Privacy, protection and respect

by Robin | Oct 15, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, On my soapbox, Parenting

~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 11 ~ The world wide web forever changed parenting. By introducing a host of decisions non-existent a decade ago, the internet heightens the responsibility of a parent to be informed about the rewards and risks...

The ultimate security blanket

by Robin | Oct 15, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens

~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 10 ~ In a country where the divorce rate hovers around 50%, it's hard for me–a recovering people pleaser–to say what I'm about to say. I realize potentially I could offend or hurt every...

Fences (not cages)

by Robin | Oct 13, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Teens & Tweens

~ 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Day 9 ~ In writing my 31 Days of Parenting Teens and Tweens, I've talked to other parents about what they'd advise if they were writing in my place. My sister, whose two daughters, 18 and 19, are six shades of...