I’m actually, grudgingly, impressed. There are a fair number of US-based websites that provide good information about sex and sexuality to teenagers. What there is not is the plethora of organizations that provide actual services to teenagers (and younger children) like there is in England. (You can see my post from yesterday [...]

There are many very cool resources about sex and sexuality for teenagers in the UK. I’ve spent some time this week surfing through them, and thought some of you might be interested as well. (I have a fair number of readers from England, but the Internet sides of these organizations are clearly available [...]

Ah, the eternal question all middle school students whisper in the halls about. (Some high school students too, by the way.)
I know a young woman who had a rule that she could not go on dates until she was 16. So she did not have “boyfriends” but just “friends.” So she and [...]

Okay, so this is really, truly funny. I’m very impressed with the writing, the truthfulness, and the humor. of the ones I’ve watched so far, my favorite is #5 The First Time. It’s honest, it’s funny, it’s effective. I’d highly recommend it to teenagers. However, there are others that I’m [...]

Back when I was a teenager, oh those many years ago, each group of friends had one house where the parent(s) welcomed them in. The teenagers felt connected to those parents, they talked to those parents, they felt supported by those parents. Those parents had serious conversations with the teenagers, they gave serious [...]

I have introduced several of my readers to the fabulous comic strip Zits about a 15-year-old boy and his family and friends. It’s a great strip. Now I’d like to introduce you to a lesser-known comic strip called Preteena (or PreTeena). It’s about a 10-year-old girl and her family and friends. [...]

Ah…those endless days at home or at your grandmother’s house, with no one but family in sight. If you’re not out of town, it doesn’t really matter, because everyone else is anyway… None of the family cares about the things you care about, and they all make it very obvious by ignoring you [...]

Happy Monday, folks!  I had a lovely weekend, and hope everyone else did too.  Last week, I wrote about the primary concern of the teenage years to be rule-free by the time senior year roles around.  On Thursday I wrote about the general outlines of what a no-rules policy means.  On Friday I wrote about [...]

Yesterday I wrote that a main premise of the High School years should be to remove all parental rules by senior year.
Now, no one confronted me on this, as I rather expected them to, telling me it was a horrible idea. But it may have been the promise of today’s post that staved off [...]

I talk with parents all the time who are concerned about what kinds of rules, or punishments, or curfews, or whatever, they should be instituting at home. For the most part, it is parents of older teens who are asking these kinds of questions. I find this highly telling. Parents of younger [...]