Tweens & Teens

Starting college is hard. And because we’re living during a pandemic, incoming college freshmen will enter college at a time of uncertainty. Although many...

Indianapolis mom Jessica Sandvold believes in teaching independence. She requires her 16-year-old daughter to make her own appointments for sports physicals. She taught her how to set up and...

When Indianapolis resident Marta Heimlich Carter’s daughter watched the documentary “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” in her environmental sciences class, she was so outraged that she became...

Having a baby in the NICU is one of the scariest things a parent can face. Here are some tips for coping with that reality.

Tim Kalgreen became interesting in voting by going to the election polls with his parents. “They were open and honest about the issues, giving...

Prepare your child for the real world. When kids work during their Second Decade—the critical, formative years between the ages of ten and twenty—they...

“I’m having a difficult time connecting with my tween age daughter. The world she is growing up in seems so different from my own...

My daughter has several friends whose parents have hired tutors. Some concepts seem tough for my child at school, but I have never thought...

“Can I have a cell phone?”   It’s a question today’s parents expect to be asked at some point during their child rearing years, but one...

As modern parents who rely on our cell phones and laptops to function day to day, we all feel that sense of dread when...