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I’m a parenting expert and family coach. Our 21st century tweens and teens are so savvy about pop culture, technology and social media, they may believe they’ve got the emotional and interpersonal part of life figured out too. They don’t. Middle and high school kids need their parents to teach them how to be good people who do the right thing, online and off. Because home is where kids learn the most about love, respect, empathy and resilience, you need 21st century parenting advice you can count on.

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Letters from Parents & Teens

Behavior Problems:
“My son's behavior is really appalling.”

 

Drugs:
“My son's problems are killing my family.”

Dear Annie,

I'm a single mum with three children (2 girls and a boy). The problem is my 6 year old son. He is a very talented reader and a fast thinker with a memory to die for but alas his behavior is really appalling. He recently got suspended from school for hitting a boy in his class for nothing. I have...

 

Hey Terra,

My son just moved back home after a year of being on his own. He's been involved with drugs, drinking, and hasn't held a job. I fear mental illness, or maybe it's just the drugs, because he used to threaten suicide. We've had him locked up for 72 hr. hold, and he "played the game," said all the...

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