Note to readers: these are the verbatim responses of the teenagers to the last, open-ended question we asked on the professional survey. Of all the responses, several were garbled or unreadable. A few were deleted as having inappropriate content. A few others contained angry comments, and these are included below. But the vast majority were…
Cathy Kidd reads a comment from a mother who highly recommends that every young woman read For Young Women Only before reaching dating age! [vimeo]67411407[/vimeo]
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Talking to a teenager is like… It’s amazing what comes up when you do a Google search with those words! Talking to a teenager is like talking to aliens. Talking to teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree. Talking to a teenager is like pulling weeds. None of these things sounds particularly…
With Shaunti on the road and the approach of a writing deadline, Vanessa Snyder, MA, LPC, LMFT, shares from her own experience as the mother of teens. You would think I would finally have it together. I have been a mother longer than not. I have papers on my wall that tell me I am…
“Honey, how was school today?” “I told you – fine.” A friend of mine relayed this conversation, sad and frustrated. After listening to her teenage son grunt out a series of monosyllabic answers to her questions, this mom looked at him and just sighed in exasperation. She then backed up and tried again, this time…
