Category: Teen Health

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...

By Samurai Mom I always wondered if I would be a mom like the ones in the movies who peered through lace curtains, anxiously waiting, forever waiting for that overgrown kid to...

By Samurai Mom Trusting your teen may feel a bit like flying blind. We frame it for our teens like this: trust is the faith that a person will do the right thing when...

By Samurai Mom The smoky vapor I walked through outside the store smelled like the Juicy Fruit gum that I loved as a kid. As I wheeled to locate the source of the scent, three...

By Samurai Dad When I heard the stirring between 2 -3 AM night after night, I realized it was my 13-year-old son wide awake and flailing about.  The insomnia seemed to come out...