Dealing with Teen Dating Violence
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Often when we speak of dating violence we think of physical violence. In fact, there are several different types of violence teens can experience. Intimate partner violence can include physical violence, sexual violence, and psychological violence. Teens can experience violence in person, online, or through any type of technology.
Healthy Parenting Without a Manual
Parenting is hard. Often the parenting you are providing is enough as long as you have built a healthy foundation of trust with your child. Parenting is usually not as much about what I want my kids to do or who I want them to be, but who I want to be.
Parenting Teens from a Developmental Perspective
The transition from childhood to adolescence is complicated on many levels, including from a parenting perspective. Developmental changes including biological, psychological and social changes make parenting adolescents very different from parenting younger children.