Category: Teen Health

by Samurai Mom As a teacher, It’s hard to watch. The shift from elementary to middle school is a difficult time for many kids and girls seem to be especially vulnerable. Left unchecked,...

By Samurai Mom It seems like every week brings a fresh news story to stir parent anxiety about the risks teens face. If it’s not an article about rising opioid addiction, then...

By Samurai Mom Ask anyone about their first kiss and a wistful smile crosses their face.  Maybe it’s a private smile on the inside, but it’s there. The strong feelings that...

By Samurai Mom How did you learn to parent?   Most of us learned from our own parents and grandparents. I’ll bet the imprint of your childhood is so strong that you either...

By Samurai Mom Friends are so important to a teenager’s development that the relative scarcity of them is likely to make your teen anxious. Very anxious.  Consider this before...

by Samurai Dad As a tagalong on my wife’s business trip to Austria many years ago, I had the chance to wander through a little town called Linz. On one of my daily walks, I started noticing...