Dear Shaunti, We live in Colorado, where pot is now visible on every corner. For my teenagers, seeing someone smoking pot is as now as commonplace as seeing someone smoking cigarettes; it’s viewed as a harmless pastime. But it isn’t harmless, and I don’t want my kids to be enticed by drugs. My husband and…
Dear Shaunti, In the last few months, it has gotten so hard for my teenage daughter to talk to me. I learn everything from listening to her tell her friends. Yesterday I overheard her telling a friend about being a finalist in a writing contest at school. When I asked her about it, she said…
This is an amazing article on Instagram that every parent of a middle schooler (or even high schooler) has to read. When Lysa TerKeurst and I wrote Made to Crave for Young Women, I began thinking a lot about what social media does to how kids think about themselves. This article nails it, and opens…
