Raising Happy, Confident Tweens & Teens | CafeMom.com https://cafemom.com/series/raising-happy-confident-tweens-and-teens Parenting, Baby Names, Celebrities, and Royal News Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://cafemom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-cafemom-favicon-150x150.png Raising Happy, Confident Tweens & Teens | CafeMom.com https://cafemom.com/series/raising-happy-confident-tweens-and-teens 32 32 Essential Things All Parents Need for Back-To-School Teens This Fall https://cafemom.com/parenting/set-yourself-and-your-teen-up-for-success-with-these-back-to-school-must Fri, 19 Jul 2024 04:12:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/set-yourself-and-your-teen-up-for-success-with-these-back-to-school-must/ I don’t know what’s going on with time. It’s got me all confused because I swear to you that for what seemed like forever, my teens and I were eagerly anticipating their summer break. Time was in no hurry to get us to summer, but then as soon as summer break hit, time got all […]

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]]> How To Help Teens Cope With Back-to-School Anxiety https://cafemom.com/parenting/how-to-help-teens-cope-with-back-to-school-anxiety Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:18:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/how-to-help-teens-cope-with-back-to-school-anxiety/ For some of us, the back-to-school season brings back happy memories of shopping for school supplies and planning the perfect first-day-of-school outfit. For others, this time of year can bring flashbacks to feeling awkward, pimply, and completely freaked out by the social and academic pressures of high school. Although everything from slang to fashion choices […]

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]]> Keep Your Teens Healthy with These Preventive Tips https://cafemom.com/parenting/preventive-health-care-how-parents-can-keep-tweens-and-teens-healthy Tue, 02 Jul 2024 05:37:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/preventive-health-care-how-parents-can-keep-tweens-and-teens-healthy/ When our kids are little, we take a lot of care to make sure they’re healthy—we bring them to their doctor’s appointments, we monitor everything they eat, we put sunscreen on them when they go outside, and more. As our kids get older and more self-sufficient, though, a lot of us become a little more […]

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]]> 12 Surprising Scientific Facts About Teens https://cafemom.com/parenting/180339-scientific_facts_about_teens_teenagers Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:13:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/180339-scientific_facts_about_teens_teenagers/ Teenagers can be tricky creatures: one moment they're insisting, "I'm not a child!" and the next they're blubbering because you said they can't have the newest gadget. It's enough to make any parent throw up their hands. But don't give up just yet! Scientists have actually studied teens and figured out a whole lot about […]

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]]> Family Vacation Ideas That Are Fun for the Whole Family (Yes, Even Your Teen!) https://cafemom.com/parenting/205913-family_vacation_ideas_fun_kids_all_ages Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/205913-family_vacation_ideas_fun_kids_all_ages/ Planning a family vacation is always a challenge (to put it mildly), but choosing the right type of trip when your kids fall into a wide range of ages can be especially tricky. Toddlers and teens don't have many interests in common, after all — unless staring at a tablet or phone counts — and […]

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]]> 15 Moms on Why Parenting Teens Is Actually Pretty Great https://cafemom.com/parenting/15-moms-on-why-parenting-teens-is-actually-pretty-great Sat, 30 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/15-moms-on-why-parenting-teens-is-actually-pretty-great/ Every parent of a toddler having a public tantrum or a preschooler having a meltdown has probably heard some version of the following: "Oh, just wait! Someday they'll be a teenager!" or "Bigger kids, bigger problems!" Even though it is never helpful to tell someone who is in the midst of a bad parenting day […]

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]]> 10 Tips for Getting Your Kids Up and Out on School Mornings https://cafemom.com/parenting/10-tips-for-getting-your-kids-up-and-out-on-school-mornings Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/10-tips-for-getting-your-kids-up-and-out-on-school-mornings/ The clock is ticking and your kid is still soundly asleep. There's now only have 10 minutes to shower, brush teeth, change clothes, scarf down breakfast, and pack a school bag before the student is late for school. You've knocked on the door. You've said it's time to get up three times. You've tried pulling […]

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]]> This Is How To Talk to Kids About Their Mental Health https://cafemom.com/parenting/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-their-mental-health Sat, 27 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-their-mental-health/ The media and entertainment landscape that we grew up with looked a lot different than it does for kids today. We had televisions, landlines, radios, VHS, CDs, and DVDs — oh, and some had pagers. If a friend wanted to catch up with us, they would usually have to call the house and make chit-chat […]

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]]> 5 Essential Conversations Moms Need To Have With Their Teens https://cafemom.com/parenting/essential-conversations-moms-need-to-have-with-their-teens Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/essential-conversations-moms-need-to-have-with-their-teens/ Sometimes parenting teens feels like living on borrowed time. The years before they leave for college (or whatever their young adult life looks like) can go quickly and they get busier than ever with school, extracurriculars, and their social lives. It can be easy as a parent to worry that there just isn’t enough time […]

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]]> Why Parents Need To Chill Out About Their Kids Doing Extracurriculars https://cafemom.com/parenting/why-parents-need-to-chill-about-kids-extracurriculars Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0000 https://cafemomcom.bigscoots-staging.com/blog/why-parents-need-to-chill-about-kids-extracurriculars The message popped up as I scrolled through the posts on Facebook group for mothers of teenagers. In the middle of a general freak-out about her son starting high school, a mother launched into a three-paragraph panic attack about the fact that her kid — who she described as bright and a good student — […]

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