Preteen & Teens Articles

Dear parent of a pre-teen or teen—the competition has started. Whether you can recognize it yet or not, you've started to compete with another voice influencing your teen. It's not the voice of [...]

Among the biggest heartbreaks for me as a parent are the times when I can’t fix a hurt for my children. Like when their friends are leaving them out. I hate it when they’re left out. Naturally I [...]

As my youngest gets settled into 8th-grade this year, I am more convinced than ever that junior high is the seventh level of Hell. I think it was created in the fires of Hades by Lucifer [...]

Every year I declare it won’t sneak up on me and every year I fail. All of a sudden I get an email from the school reminding me about Meet The Teachers night and I look at the calendar and I [...]

There's A LOT of parenting stuff on Facebook. Pictures of people's kids. Shared articles about how to get them to [fill in the blank here with whatever you need your kids to do right now. Sleep? [...]

There's a family in my neighborhood that constantly plays together in the street. It's a beautiful thing. I honestly have no idea how they pull it off in their schedules. If I was completely [...]

You made it! Summer is FINALLY upon us. Welcome to the smell of driveway campfires and fresh cut lawn. Before you know it, you may even be hearing ice cream trucks playing that one song over and [...]

True confession: the movie Teen Wolf (the Michael J. Fox version, not the hipster MTV version featuring ridiculously attractive faux teens that's on television today) TERRIFIED me as a child. I [...]

Mom, where do babies come from? No question puts fear into the hearts of parents quite like this one. Except maybe... ...Mom, what is cancer? ...Dad, are you going to die? ...Why is Aunt Sarah [...]

Recently my family and I were talking about differences and what makes us unique, and our conversation quickly turned to our different spiritual gifts. In 1 Corinthians, Paul wrote that each [...]