My 13 Year Old Wants to Date

June 1, 2011 on 12:37 pm | In Dating, Parenting, Teens, YouTube Email This Post Email This Post

Shelby’s 13 year old would like to go to the movies with a boy, but Mom is reluctant to say yes.  How old should kids be to date? 

My 13 Year Old Wants to Date

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Girls Keep Throwing Their Bodies At Me

January 26, 2011 on 5:02 pm | In Dating, Ethics, Morals, Sex, Teens, Values Email This Post Email This Post

Here’s a case of role reversal – a teen guy is unhappy with unwanted sexual advances from teen girls:

Girls Keep Throwing Their Bodies At Me

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Video War Games – Useful or Disrespectful?

November 16, 2010 on 7:32 am | In Internet, Media, Military, Teens, YouTube Email This Post Email This Post

A lot of the most popular video games on the market are war games.  Are they good or bad for teenage boys?

Video War Games - Useful or Disrespectful

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Mom’s Disciplinary Rules Are Stupid

November 2, 2010 on 9:58 am | In Parenting, Teens, YouTube Email This Post Email This Post

We often hear the difficulties parents have with raising teens.  In today’s video, I heard the story from the point of view of a 13 year old who thinks her mother is being unreasonable:

Mom's Disciplinary Rules Are Stupid

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Disrespecting Mom While Dad’s Deployed

September 28, 2010 on 8:30 am | In Military, Parenting, Teens, YouTube Email This Post Email This Post

When a military parent is deployed, it can be difficult on the entire family.  One mom is at a loss as to how to help her teenage daughters, who have started to act out:

Disrespecting Mom While Dad's Deployed

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Help! My Teen Is a Pain in the Neck!

August 31, 2010 on 2:44 pm | In Parenting, Teens, YouTube Email This Post Email This Post

One day your children are cuddling up in your lap, and the next day they don’t want to have anything to do with you. That’s the behavior that’s puzzling a listener who wrote about his teenage daughter:

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Stay Out! Leave Me Alone!

June 8, 2010 on 12:00 am | In Friendships, Parenting, Teens Email This Post Email This Post

Being a parent of a teenager can be trying.  Especially if you’ve got one who essentially locks herself in her room most of the time:

Video: Stay out!  Leave Me Alone!

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What’s The Matter With Kids Today?

April 15, 2010 on 12:00 am | In Children, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, School, Teens Email This Post Email This Post

What’s the problem with kids today?  The answer to that is easy:  THEIR PARENTS!

According to the Fresno Bee, five high school seniors cut down two trees on their campus as a “senior prank.”  School officials expelled the students and transferred them to a continuation school to finish out their senior year.

The students (all seniors and football players) cut down two Southern Live Oak trees, with ten-inch trunks.  The trees were about 14 years old and nearly 20 feet high.  The damage was estimated to be between $7,500 and $14,000.  The boys said this was a prank meant to deprive junior classmates of shade.

Stupid, stupid, stupid…..but they are all “jock heroes,” probably way too used to inflated estimations of their own value and power.

The school did exactly the right thing.

The parents did exactly the wrong thing.  They said that the school “overreacted,” and they got attorneys involved to get their kids back in the school.  The school is standing firm.  Good for them.

“To hire attorneys,” as one of my listeners wrote to me, “teaches these kids that they can get away with ‘pranks’ and that they do not have to respect the law or be accountable for such behavior to school officials.  It will be interesting to see how these youngsters turn out as they mature.  Will they be good citizens?  Will they raise their children similarly to how they were raised?  Will their views change on how their own parents handled this life lesson?  It remains to be seen.  I do hope our community doesn’t read about them again later on down the line after they’ve robbed a store or beaten someone up and again hired an attorney to defend their actions.”

That point, in particular, is why (when people call and tell me that they have “x” number of “beautiful” children) I tell them I don’t care if they have pretty or ugly kids.  I only care that they have decent kids, because the well being of all of us depends on that.

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