Remember that commercial from back in the day that said, “It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your kids are?” My friends and I used to spoof that all of the time, but really, it wasn’t a joke. Back then, knowing where your kids were was the only guarantee that they weren’t up to no good. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …