With so many different parenting styles, how can you know which you emulate best? The following is a look at what it means to be a permissive parent.Permissive parents believe that loving their child is the biggest priority for parenting. They take the approach to parenting of … [Read more...] about Permissive Parenting
Parenting Teens
Indulgent Parenting Style
While every parent wants to raise upstanding citizens, and happy children that love them, almost every parent goes about doing so in their own unique way. Some succeed, others fail. The fact is that there are certain parenting styles we adopt, and the way our children turn out is … [Read more...] about Indulgent Parenting Style
So Your Teen Wants to Join the Armed Forces?
How to Help Them Make the Right DecisionParents tend to have mixed feelings about their sons and daughters joining the armed forces. Whatever your political affiliation, although you may think it's a good idea for some teenagers, you are probably far from prepared when your own … [Read more...] about So Your Teen Wants to Join the Armed Forces?
Cyberbullying: A View from the Bench
by Judge Tom JacobsAs a juvenile and family court judge for 23 years, I saw thousands of teenagers and families in my courtroom. They were there for many reasons: adoption, delinquency, abuse and neglect, name change, permission to marry or obtain an abortion, etc. Daily … [Read more...] about Cyberbullying: A View from the Bench
What to Do When Your Teen Won’t Go to School
Teens go through all kinds of stages and phases. Some harmless, like dying their hair a weird color. Some a little more long lasting. If your teen doesn't want to go to school, it might be a stage, or it might be there is a problem. Either way, not going to school has long term … [Read more...] about What to Do When Your Teen Won’t Go to School
Parenting viewpoints from parents in the trenches, because parenting doesn’t come with a manual. In addition to