Screens often get a bad rap when it comes to tweens and teens. I can’t say that it’s not warranted, either. When my daughter gets the opportunity to use my cell phone, or get on her tablet, she can go into a trance. I can call her name over and over and it’s like she…
Category: Daughters
The Best Period Tracking Apps for Girls
If you have a tween daughter, you know that the inevitable is going to happen any day now. The majority of girls start their menstrual cycles between the age of 9 and 13. When my period started, I was scared out of my mind and not at all prepared. It took me a couple of…
Household Chores For Tweens
It can be difficult to find household chores for tweens that are realistic. I remember what it was like to be a tween. Back in the day when I was a kid, I think adults had unrealistic expectations of pre-teens. We weren’t even living in the information age, and grownups expected us to know how…
How to connect with your tween daughter
The relationship I have with my tween daughter is everything to me. The only thing I ever wanted when I found out I was having a daughter was to be a good mom to her. What does that mean? Well, I want her to know that she’s loved, trust me, and feel comfortable telling me…
A YA book favorite, STARGIRL, is coming to Disney+
STARGIRL will be streaming on Disney+ on March 13th! Back in the day, I used to read dozens of young adult novels every month in order to create curriculum around it for my afterschool program. You’d be surprised at how moved a book written for tweens and teens moved me even as an adult. STARGIRL…