The Sex Talk: (When, Where, How, With Whom) The Sex Talk: Handle Your Own Insecurities. If you’re nervous about the talk, take time before hand to work through your own personal fears and insecurities before talking with your child. Children are sensitive to the emotions behind the words we use as parents, and any fear you […]
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Are You And Your Teen Prepared For Prom? 9 Questions To Ask First Do you need to set a prom budget? “Teenagers can get carried away when getting ready for the prom. Buying tuxedos, dresses, tickets, renting limousines and choosing a restaurant, all can be extremely expensive. “ Does your child need help selecting a […]
With Easter right around the corner there will be lots of fun to be had with colorful Easter Eggs, Easter Bunnies and egg hunts. In 2005, David Hyche got creative when it came to his blind daughter participating in an Easter Egg hunt. Knowing that his daughter wanted to be able to search for the […]
How Old Should Girls Wearing Makeup? “Makeup often represents an adolescent girl’s eagerness and excitement to become a ‘grown up,’ and explore her attractiveness to peers, but for parents, it can bring up fear and stress relating to their child maturing and becoming interested in boys,” says Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist specializing in family relationships. […]
Three Tips for Traveling with Baby Although spring is really just beginning, already many families are making plans for that summer road trip. No matter if it is a quick run up the coast to visit family or a week-long road trip through a new part of the country, kids complicate travel. In addition, […]
At only 14 years old, Jazz Jennings is becoming a household name, thanks to Johnson & Johnson’s Clean & Clear product line. Jazz has received national attention when she first contributed to Clean & Clear’s #SeeTheRealMe ad campaign, where she shared her “coming of age story.” Jazz took part in this campaign by submitting […]
Two teenage girls who went to see Cinderella have received a very important life lesson in an unusual but very effective way. Kyesha Smith Wood dropped off her daughter and stepdaughter both 13 years old along with her older son at the movie theaters in Birmingham, Alabama. The three of them went to see Cinderella. […]
How To Find The Best Surrogate Mother Learning that you can’t naturally conceive your own biological child can be desolating. Fortunately, surrogacy can give many different options where couples thought there would be none. The traditional form of surrogacy is where the father willingly donates his sperm to fertilize the surrogate egg resulting in the […]
Dedicated Kerry Washington Live-Tweeted “Scandal” Fans During Labor Kerry Washington plays the role of “Olivia Pope,” on the hit TV show Scandal. Washington takes her job very seriously, every week she tweets as Scandal airs. Washington is known for keeping her life very private, as she told People.com in 2013, it just doesn’t work for […]
When was the last time you sat down with your entire family for dinner? With our work schedules and children’s after-school activities, many families find it almost impossible to sit down together as a family. Eating together as a family during your children’s adolescence, is associated with positive and lasting effects on your child’s dietary […]
If you are like thousands of households across the nation, you probably pack your kids a healthy lunch before they head out to school. And if your kid is like thousands of kids across the nation, it may well be traded or tossed rather than ever get a chance to be eaten. There are dozens of reasons […]
Are We Coddling Our Kids Too Much? Lately I have heard of tiny babies with elaborate birthday parties, a mom who makes an annual time capsule for her son to give him on his 18th birthday and parents who worry about their children’s safety the moment they walk out the door. Have we become the […]