Teens

Does anyone have kids who are going off to college for the first time this fall? How are you feeling ?

Hi, everyone,

My friends and I have started setting up this website called Troubled Teens Info (http://www.troubledteensinfo.com). You see, we all have our own share of troubled childhood and pains of growing up, but then we wouldn't want any teen, wherever or whoever he is, to suffer what we've been through. It has become our mission to provide help and guidance in whatever way can for effective parenting and every teen's better understanding.--read more

...well, at least a temporary learner's permitted one!

YIKES!

Anybody want to trade a potty-training toddler for my ready-to-get-the-road almost-16-year-old daughter?

Actually, I think we're ready. She's very cautious and mature and I'm ready to be relieved of a bit of taxi duty!--read more

Well, DS15 went to his first "teenager" party last night. I was an absolute wreck emotionally on the inside, but I think it went really well.

Now, I should tell you that my parents never let me go to a party. It always really bothered me, and I ended up lying to them about where I was, and spending the night with friends with neglectful parents. There was never the accountability for me to my parents. I never got to practice being responsible, and usually I was very irresponsible. When I was a senior I told my parents that I was going to the graduation party. Period. They almost threw me out of the house. For real. So, anyway,--read more

I'm scared about my DS14's anger. He gets very upset at things that seem inconsequential and becomes a stranger. He has always been quite a perfectionist and control freak (Where could he have gotten that?) but this seems to go beyond that. --read more

hmm, i just selected every single category that has to do with my life, but perhaps that was overdoing it. Yet all these subjects came up today:

Teens, Education, Homeschooling: my homeschooler is trying to crash a class at the local public high school, and although we have every right as "taxpayers" for her to attend, all the b.s. that goes along with their bureaucracy makes you have second thoughts! She thinks it's so funny that the teacher admonishes the kids to be quiet and keep their hands to themselves, stay in their chairs, etc. She's been going to independent classes and community college classes for a year now, and no one ever talks like that. Yet this class is supposed to be this really creative interdisciplinary math class that people vie to get into... had to do an "audition" like it was a broadway show! Maybe it will turn out to be inventive and cool... right now she's just mesmerized by the social scene. They also gave her three hours of homework last night...what on earth? If they spent more time in class doing math instead of worrying about the baby stuff...--read more

They have got it completely backwards: This study is drawing the complete wrong conclusions about teens, drugs (including alcohol) and sex.

"This year's survey reveals a tight connection between teen sexual behavior and substance abuse," said Joseph A. Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

"Parents who become aware of certain dating and sexual behavior by their children should be alert to the increased likelihood of substance abuse," he said.

Listen, parents who aren't aware of substance abuse aren't going to be noticing sexual behavior, either, for starters. For seconds, sex doesn't lead to drugs and drinking--drugs (ESPECIALLY drinking) lead to sex. First you get too screwed up to know what the right thing to do is, then you do the wrong thing. Hopefully you don't do this before college, if at all. --read more

My oldest DD turns 14 tomorrow and I find myself sad about it. I realize that my sorrow has nothing at all to do with her...she is a lovely, wonderful, talented girl. It's about me, but I haven't figured out what it is that is the issue. --read more

My DD16 brings home her yearbook the other day ,,,here is what I find wrong with it
cover is just a bunch of lips on a black background,,with a saying 'say what ?'
all club pictures have no names by them ,,,not even the name of the club--read more

When we moved here almost 3 years ago, DD(then11) decided to join the band. She played piano but not a band instrument. She decided to learn clarinet, which she did quickly. Last year in the spring, she was asked to switch to Bass Clarinet, which she also did. In Feb. she performed a solo competition piece on the bass clarinet and received the highest rating possible!--read more

I am so Not Ready for this! We seem to talk more about girls and what goes on with them around this "crossing over" age from tweens to teens, but I just got a fresh worry slap in the face when I ran upon a lady and her son in Walmart yesterday. The boy is in 7th grade (between my 2 kids). Its probable he's already turned 13, but if so, not by far. --read more

Sexually transmitted disease rates the same for abstinent teens as the rest of the population later in life: Adults who as teens pledged to stay virgins until marriage have the same STD rates as adults who did not. The main reason? The pledged virgins rarely use condoms when they became sexually active:--read more

Fourteen years ago, I became a mother and life began for both of us.I never wanted to be a mother until I became one and then it was all I wanted to be.

When all the other "new mommies" were worrying about what the absolute best brand of diapers to use were and when Junior would roll over, my mind was on more long range things.--read more

Got a teen heading to prom? Need some scholarship money? A little crafty? Get a few rolls of duct tape and go for the Stuck on Prom duct tape formalwear contest, just opened for its fourth year.--read more

My DS will become a teenager in July. I would like to mark the occasion somehow, do something special... Does anyone have any ideas?

My friend is having difficulties with her almost thirteen year old daughter. He DD is mouthy, disobedient, arriving late at school every day (despite having left home early), not doing her schoolwork or homework, being cheeky and rude to her mother and to her teachers, and nasty to her little brother. She habitually lies. She says she doesn't care about anything. She has even said she doesn't care if she goes 'into care'. She often appears to be very angry for no apparent reason. She often comes home late. Today for example she arrived home at 6pm from school, instead of 4.30. Last Friday she didn't arrive home until after 7. She doesn't ring her mother to tell her where she is.--read more