Tweens & Teens

Teach Your Under-Age Teen to Drive

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

Under no circumstance should you actually let your under-age child drive a car....But waiting to teach your child to drive until she’s actually old enough for a learner’s permit limits the time available to teach all you’d like her to know.

Tweens & Teens

Dear Diary: Why Your Teen Needs A Journal

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

Writing taps into the subconscious mind and reveals even to the writer ideas that were hidden. At times when a person doesn’t know what to think, writing is one way to find out.

Tweens & Teens

When Should You Tattle on Someone Else’s Kid?

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

Imagine that your own child complains that another kid in the neighborhood is picking on her, hitting her, snatching her stuff, and saying mean things. What do you do?

Tweens & Teens

Teen Dreams: Should You Burst the Bubble?

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

In some way, our dreams are our most-perfect selves, our most private selves, the piece of us that endures the longest. Your teen needs her dreams.

Tweens & Teens

9 Tips for Talking to Teens

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

At age four or five your child talks your ear off. But then, when she hits the teen years, she clams up. How can you keep your kid talking to you? Here are nine tricks to try.

Tweens & Teens

7 Ways To Help Your Teen Be Money Smart

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

Here are seven conversations to have this summer, when money might seem to grow on trees and ways to spend it grow even faster.

Tweens & Teens

5 Tips for Parenting Teenagers

Katie Malinski

Parenting teenagers can be one of the toughest jobs in the world. But if you keep these 5 important concepts in mind, you’ll find they help you with challenges both big and small.

Tweens & Teens

Should Teen Art Be Censored?

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

So does this mean that teens who create art that offends adults are threatened and in danger? Is this art a symptom of trouble to come?

Tweens & Teens

Your Child’s Strengths and Her Future

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

As you help your child figure out how to spend the coming summer months, keep in mind what talents she’d like to develop.

Tweens & Teens

The Truth About Video Games

Dr. Patricia Nan Anderson

If your teen plays video games – and what teen doesn’t? – then you might wonder if this is a good idea and if you should limit her play or restrict the sorts of games you allow into the house.