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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...
How Late Should I Let My Teenager Stay Out? Setting a Curfew
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 Dad The Android cell tone that rang out in the night was quickly silenced by our teen, but not quick enough to escape our ears. The nocturnal browsing motivated...
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...
