Family Articles

• Talking to Parents: When Teens Take the Wheel

  ParentingTeensOnline talked with parents about how they manage sharing of the family car with their teen driver.
  

• Vacations Your Teens Can Tolerate

  What about a dude ranch? A tour of the Big Apple? A beach retreat? How to pick a vacation that won’t break the bank and will please your teens too.

• Parent to Parent: Breast Cancer in the Family

  The stories of two women struggling to keep life normal for their teens while also battling breast cancer.

• Book Excerpt: Nurturing the Nature of Your Young Teen

  An excerpt from Michael Gurian's "Nurture the Nature".

• Family Dinners Cook Up Responsible Teens

  Eating together provides a lot more than just nutrition. Find out how to "get with the meal program" which can improve communication with your teens and help them avoid risky behaviors.

• Book Excerpt: Getting To Know Your Teens - Top 10 Communication Tips

  An excerpt from Sean Covey’s "The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make"

• Teens and Grandparents

  Parenting on the Run: Tips for making teens' visits to grandparents smooth.

• Rebel, Rebel: Reconciling Your Past With Your Teen's Present

  Should you talk to your teen about what you did when you were a teen? Experts and parents offer advice.

• Discipline

  Parenting on the Run: Discipline solutions you can use.

• Curfews

  What’s your teen’s curfew and how do you make it stick? Learn what teens and parents have to say about getting home on time.