Category: Teen Lifestyle

by Shannon Betts. This post originally appeared on A Fine Parent. “Mom, I have better things to do now.” When the conversation is about reading, few...

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 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...