by suescheff | Mar 4, 2025 | Parenting Teens
Dogs provide strong companionship, especially for teens. They can bring comfort, joy, and support during tough times. The bond between a teen and a dog can lead to healing and personal growth. Having a dog can give teens emotional support and teach them responsibility...
by suescheff | Feb 4, 2025 | Parenting Teens
Teen anxiety is more common than ever. From academic pressures to navigating friendships and managing social media, teens often face overwhelming expectations. Anxiety isn’t just stress or worry. It’s a persistent feeling of fear or unease that can disrupt everyday...
by suescheff | Jan 3, 2025 | Parenting Teens
How can you help your teen choose good friends — in real life outside of technology. This is one of the most common concerns parents have today, especially when they have raised their child with a solid family foundation and good morals and principles. Some...
by suescheff | Nov 22, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Have you noticed your teen becoming more withdrawn? Isolating themselves to their bedrooms or shutting down from family functions? A growing body of research shows that young people are more likely to feel lonely than older adults. Loneliness is hard especially for...
by suescheff | Oct 22, 2024 | Digital Parenting
As a parent, you have every right to be concerned about your teen’s online activity. Not everyone on the Internet has good intentions, and teenagers are usually the ones who fall for the traps of such individuals. Currently, there are 750,000 registered sex...
by suescheff | Oct 1, 2024 | Digital Parenting
Parents today have no shortage of things to worry about when it comes to the online world in which their kids are growing up. From online predators, to scam artists and explicit pages, the web houses many threats to today’s youth. The effects screen time has become a...
by suescheff | Sep 1, 2024 | Parenting
Generations ago, most of us remember our parents sending us outside to play with our neighborhood friends, riding our bikes, building forts and not coming back until dinner time. Many may remember family supper when everyone sat around the dinner table and...
by suescheff | Aug 2, 2024 | Online reputation
Today most young people are attached to their devices, which has become extremely concerning to parents. More worrisome is what is happening to teenage mental health from the rise of the overuse of screens. Years ago, raising our children never included teaching them...
by suescheff | Jul 8, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Is your teen considering a summer job? What are the benefits of summer employment? If your teenager is old enough to apply for employment, it’s time to encourage to get a summer job. There are many benefits to part-time summer work, and you may discover most teens...
by suescheff | Jun 9, 2024 | Parenting tips
There is nothing new about teenagers staying up late; we all did it. However, it seems our generation didn’t have the same stress, anxiety, and mental health crisis that we are facing today. Teen depression, self-harm, and suicide ideation have continued to be a major...
