Tag: preteen

Finding Time to Talk with Your Kids

It's approaching 9pm on a Thursday evening. My eight-year-old son? Asleep. My eleven-year-old daughter just finished brushing her teeth and stops to tell me...

Talking with Your Kids about Online Pornography

I want to begin this article with a painful premise. Before your kids turn eighteen—likely before high school—they almost certainly will see something you...

Parenting Preteen Girls — from A to Z!

A smart and beautiful eleven-year-old girl calls me mom. While relatively new to the Land of the Preteen, I have been taking copious mental...

Talking Sex with My Kid

My daughter is in the fifth grade and will be eleven years old in January. This is what I know — She is hearing incorrect...