Mom, I want to get a job!


 How to handle your teenager’s first job

by Diane O’Neil

When a teen, and the teen’s family, decide it’s time to for the teen to get her first job, the entire family is affected.

I started working when I was very young. I was only fifteen when I began working as a hostess in a restaurant. Working in the restaurant industry gave me many wonderful lessons in the art of customer service. The things I learned as a hostess have been beneficial throughout my entire career.

When your teen decides he’d like to start looking for a job, there are many factors to consider.

10 Slumber Party Do’s and Don’ts

Slumber Party Do's & Don'ts

How to successfully host a slumber party

 

By Kerrie McLoughlin

Does the thought of 10 kids sleeping over at your house all on the same night freak you out? Do you picture getting zero sleep because you have to deal with said kids all night long? Do you picture food and drink and toys and junk exploding all over your house? Yeah, I did, too. Then I figured out some ways to make it a great experience for the kids AND for me. Learn from the Slumber Party Sensei’s dos and don’ts, folks:

How Fathers Can Play an Active Role in their Teen Daughters Lives

Sugar and spice and all that’s nice. That’s what little girls are made of.

by Erica S. Gould

Father-daughter relationships are complicated. One minute she is your little girl in pigtails, following you everywhere. You’re the only man in her life. Then, she grows up. She spends more time with her friends, starts wearing makeup, and GASP–she goes on her first date. Suddenly you feel left behind and shut out. But wait–you don’t have to take a back seat to the teenage years in your daughter’s life. Instead of becoming a passive observer, try to play an active role. Studies have consistently shown that girls who have good relationships with their fathers have healthier relationships with men, have increased self esteem, and fewer overall mental and emotional health concerns.

A Lifetime of Road Trips

Kids pick up more than you realize by Barbara Barnes In the 1960’s, cross country road trips looked different than they do today. Kids bounced unrestrained in the backseat; Coca-Cola…

Life After the NICU

Life After Nicu - Mom and Baby

How to continue helping NICU parents after baby comes home

 

by Kerrie McLouglin

You’d think that once a family got home with their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) baby they would be home free, right? After all, their baby isn’t hooked up to multiple monitors, doesn’t have IVs sticking out of every part of its body, and the parents don’t have to travel to and from the hospital every day anymore. So why do the parents still seem so stressed out? Read on to find out about some special challenges of and how to take care of these special parents and babies.

Children with OCD

How to Recognize Symptoms of OCD in Kids and Teens

by Kerrie McLoughlin

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Maybe you think of the TV show “Monk,” of someone who washes their hands over and over, of someone who loves a schedule and hates germs. Did you realize that as many as 1 out of every 200 kids or teens has OCD?