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Family Confidential: Secrets of Successful Parenting is a biweekly podcast that focuses on 21st century parenting challenges and solutions. Hosted by Annie Fox and produced by Electric Eggpl...
As kids grow their bodies change. So do their thoughts, feelings and desires. When young adolescents (10-14 year olds) start experiencing cr...
When computer games are a problem for parents, it's usually because a child/teen has become obsessed and no longer shows interest in "family...
At times, every child feels worried, confused, or scared. In those moments, kids need safe adults to talk to. When your child comes to you,...
In the minds of kids as well as adults "failure" is something to be avoided at all costs. But Jessica Lahey, educator and author of "The Gif...
Many caring moms and dads today have turned away from the authoritarian parent model they may have grown up with. The new approach is often...
Losing her father can impede a girl's emotional and relational development – that's tough to overcome. At this moment, tens of millions of f...
Three months after Heather Von St. James gave birth to her first child, she was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma, a rare form o...
Parenting tweens and teens is challenging. They're testing boundaries, just as they should at this age. And whether we like it or not, they'...
Has parenting really changed all that much since we're now raising our children in the Digital Age? Not according to G. Cory Warren, Corpora...
When we're worried, we are not feeling empowered (or safe or happy). That's part of the reason parents often tell our kids "Don't worry." Ea...
In high achieving schools, the expectations of parents and teachers can be intense. Getting top grades puts kids under unhealthy levels of s...
Our culture pressures mothers to conform to an ideal of "good mom." When our children are little we are often too busy with caregiving to th...
We hear a lot from parent educators about the importance of teaching kids to be "resilient." The "How?" part of the equation isn't always cl...
Research shows that how kids feel about being at school impacts their ability to do well at school. It comes down to something pretty simple...
Middle school social interactions are often a series of very quick, very short conversations, taking place amidst a chaotic backdrop. If you...
Most educators want nothing more than a positive school environment where all students feel respected and accepted. And yet, there are daily...
Everyone has heard the voice of his or her own "inner critic" taking pot shots at us during times of low self-confidence. For many girls and...
The term "special education" is typically used to define "instruction/classes for children with special needs because of physical or learnin...
Tweens and teens often procrastinate. And when they do, parents may resort to threats, bribes, and/or pep talks. Some parents may lose it an...
We label people we don't understand. We label people we fear. We label people we have written off as not being worthy of our time or friends...
Are 21st Century Dads really all that different from 20th century dads? According to parent coach Aaron Schiller, "Today's dads around the w...
Parents often have the best intentions. We want the best (and the most) for our kids. But when parents consistently over-function in their r...
Parents are very tuned in to other parents. When we see something in public looks like "bad" parenting, our impulse to judge may be to stron...
Bullying is a learned behavior, and we want the perpetrators to _unlearn_ it as quickly as possible. But what and how can targeted kids teac...
We hear a lot about "girl power," but in many ways our culture disempowers girls. How so? According to Dr. Laura Choate, author of Swimming...
When kids have issues with other kids outside of the school day, it can bleed over into the next day at school. And the day after that. So m...
We know that kids learn by making mistakes, but we're not always comfortable with that reality. As author and educator Tyler Durman puts it,...
For teens and adults alike, works of fiction are a powerful tool for exploring emotions and behavior. As Los Angeles-based psychotherapist a...
It's not easy being a child, tween, or teen with ADHD. It's not easy being the parent of one either. Whether your child has recently receive...
For most adults, working with teens probably doesn't top their bucket list. Working with delinquent and out-of-control teens is even more ch...
A parent's #1 job is to keep his or her children safe, yet 80% of all child abuse cases involve some form of neglect. We do our best to care...
According to Dr. Devorah Heitner, parents should assess their kids' digital and communication needs before handing over access to any digita...
When Galit Breen posted an article about the lessons of love she'd learned from the first twelve years of marriage, she was stunned by the r...
People on social media give themselves license to be incredibly rude to others. And this is the playground our kids hang out in every day. W...
Children may lie for many reasons. Today's guest, Thierry Koehrlen, says his career as a "big liar" began when he was a child with low self-...
So much of a teen's life feels like a secret, and parents don't know how to access that secret. Not knowing can cause anxiety and lead to pa...
Parents have obsessed over what goes into their kids' mouths since the dawn of dinner time. And for good reason. If your kid doesn't eat s/h...
Back in the day, students only met with school counselors to discuss test scores and schedule classes. With today's students' increasing soc...
Today's tweens and teens spend a lot of time connected to each other on social media. Some of it is just chatter (like many of the texts we...
Gender Spectrum, a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit, has a mission to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children a...
More than 80 percent of tweens and teens are frequent social media users and that number hasn't yet peaked. Through their constant plugged-i...
It's not easy being a teen. Being the parent of one is no walk in the park either. Actor/singer/songwriter Maggie Baird puts it this way, "Y...
Amy Lang was a sexuality educator throughout her 20's and 30's, who "loved talking to people about sex." But when her four-year-old son made...
When developers first started creating apps for kids, the focus was primarily on math and language arts skills. But now the new hot area for...
For LGBT youth, one of the hardest things may be coming out to parents. After all, a parents' reaction to the fact that one's child is gay,...
The tween years are transitional years for kids and parents. Amy Ambrozich, parent educator, defines this period as the shift between the el...
A new definition of family is: a constantly changing, evolving group of people who we feel close to. These folks may or may not be relatives...
Our #1 job as parents is to keep our kids safe. To do that we've got to be vigilant. But is it possible to be overly vigilant? Columnist and...
When two people marry, and one or both already has children from a previous relationship, there are often unique challenges. According to Ju...
I am proud to count myself amongst the many parents and educators who help tweens and teens understand that they have the power to be the ch...