Do Over

January 10, 2012

All of us have wished at some point in our lives to get a “do-over.” In fact, we spend quite a bit of time thinking about the things we wish we could do over. I guess it’s just part of our struggle to stay in the present. The new year is one time when do-overs [...]

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Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner

November 18, 2011

Here are Underdue Social Services, lots of emails come around during the holidays with great information. Here is one to share with all of you. It’s a bit of really good advice for Thanksgiving Dinner. Apr 26, 2011 | By B. Lynn Ms. Lynn is an educator and freelance writer living in Pennsylvania. She has [...]

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Talk Topic Five: Talk about Life

November 1, 2011

I am not talking about the educational or the political topics here. I am referring to the simple, personal ones. Parents are often very focused on the particular decisions or behaviors of their teenager. They spend their time thinking or talking about the specifics. When did you come home last night? Where are you going [...]

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Talk Topic Four: Talk about History

October 25, 2011

When I was a teen, I went through my parent’s photo albums and they told stories about our family. Those experiences made me a big fan of family histories in all of their forms. Digital photography has totally changed the way we capture memories (a topic in a whole different E-book). So how can you [...]

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Talk Topic Three: Talk About Justice

October 18, 2011

Children and teenagers get their beliefs about justice from their family. Prejudice, cruelty, intolerance and bigotry are all learned. None of us come out of the womb thinking negatively about a particular group of people. You teach your children and your teen about justice every time you watch the news. We teach teens to have [...]

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Talk Topic Two: Talk about Feelings

October 12, 2011

The question most teens dread the most is “How do you feel about that?” All of you can see the eye-roll already just hearing the question. The trick to talking about feelings with your teen is to admit to your own. Parents work really hard to try and get teens to talk about their feelings. [...]

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Talk Topic One: Talk about you

October 10, 2011

Parents talk to teens about what the teen is doing, what they should or shouldn’t do, or what they want them to do. You don’t talk very often about yourselves. I am not referring to the “I walked a mile just to go to school” talk. I mean what you are doing – right now. [...]

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Now on to Talk Topics

September 20, 2011

For the last five weeks we have been talking about TYPES OF TALK – how you talk to your teen in certain circumstances. If you haven’t downloaded the full E-Book yet, we hope you will visit our Facebook Page, “like” us and get the link to download the book. For the next five weeks we [...]

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TYPE OF TALK: Mad Talk

September 13, 2011

Some things should absolutely make us mad. Anger is an appropriate reaction for certain behaviors, comments or decisions our teen might make. That does not translate into yelling, however. Anger is communicated a number of different ways. The image of a parent yelling with a totally red face and blood vessels popping may be popular [...]

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TYPE OF TALK: Serious Talk

September 6, 2011

This is the direct opposite of Funny Talk. Some situations are just serious. If you think your teen is engaging in dangerous or life threatening behavior, you have probably even passed the point of Serious Talk and need a more dramatic intervention or professional help. However, there are times short of a major crisis, when [...]

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