by janetedgette | Jan 18, 2023 | Boy behavior, Coaching kids and teens, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting teens, Teenagers
Oh, Let Me Count the Ways… 1. Many of the teenagers we see have not asked to be in therapy (although that is changing in the wake of the youth mental health movement). They were brought by parents or other caregivers or sent there by their school or the courts...
by janetedgette | Nov 15, 2022 | Parent-Child communication, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Parenting young children, Teenagers, Teens and school
When it comes to selecting indicators of a child’s favorable prospective adjustment to adult life, many Americans educators and parents have opted for the measurable and binary kinds—grades, class rankings, RBIs, how many extracurriculars, uses drugs or doesn’t, in...
by janetedgette | Jun 6, 2020 | Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teenagers
My last post expressed my concern about the way we talk about teenagers in our culture—you know, that kids are just “hard-wired” to be difficult once they reach adolescence, that puberty and all those hormones make them crazy, etc… I wondered whether we could afford...
by janetedgette | May 24, 2020 | Parenting teens, Teenagers, Uncategorized
With a wink of the eye and a shared smirk, parents across the United States trade in their collective anxiety about raising teenagers for the comfort of believing that they are not alone, that it could not be anything butexasperating. Kids are hard-wired to be...
by janetedgette | Jul 4, 2019 | Family life, Parent-Child communication, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Parenting young children, Teenagers
A teenage girl stares at her mother who waits patiently and smiles kindly at the elderly man whose unfamiliarity with paying electronically is holding up the line at the register. “Why were you smiling at that guy?” the daughter asks on their way out, her impatience...
by janetedgette | Oct 4, 2017 | Family life, Home Page, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teenagers
Olivia calls her dad a s**t-head every chance she gets, but what she really wants to say to him is this: “Every time you talk to me you’re trying to make some point and it gets old. Plus, you think you’re being funny but it hurts my feelings and that’s why I don’t...
