Category: Parenting teens
Safe Teens Online
0 Nowadays tweens and teens have access to the Internet everywhere they go. They own or use several devices that grant them online access: smartphones, tablets, console games, desktop, and laptop computers. How teenagers use the Internet changes in a fast pace. And, sometimes, it can be overwhelming for their parents to understand what their…
Rhythms and reasons of allowances for kids
0 In order to provide experience and lessons around money, many parents, at some point, choose to give their children an allowance. If they dont have a planned allowance strategy when this time comes, its often Google.com to the rescue. As with most things, people have come up with good, better and best allowance systems….
What are age appropriate chores?
0 Choresare not always fun for adults or for kids but they are important for teaching kids responsibility. Young children will often get excited about helping their parents and older siblings because it makes them feel important so take advantage of this time when it is still a novelty and start with the basics. It…
Raising a child with autism: one woman’s experience
1 Learning to live with the diagnosis and making every moment count Sarah Rasmussen is many things. She has many labels. Mother. Wife. Entrepreneur. Exercise Queen. Health Nut. Super Mom. Every day, the one that bounces around her brain like a 4-year old with a face full of neon blue icing from a birthday cake…
Preparing for College – start early & make it a family activity
1 This has been a year of learning for us as parents I was out last night with some of my original PEP moms and it seemed like a lifetime ago that we were talking about diaper rashes and pacifiers. We have watched our children grow up together. Last nightsdiscussion covered everything from the teen…