Overview: Curious about which essential life skills our teens should know before leaving home? Here are the best ways to teach these essential life skills for teens as well as a FREE, printable teenage life skills checklist. Both of my boys have been working part-time jobs since they were 15 and 16. This is a …
Overview: We always tuck our young children into bed. But we send our older kids to bed on their own. Find out why you should still be tucking your teens in at night. When our kids are little, one of the most meaningful times of the day is when we tuck them into bed at night. …
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Do you have a teenage son who appears to be lazy? Who doesn’t want to help out around the house or do his schoolwork? Even though parenting teenagers can be a wonderful season of life, it isn’t always easy. Teenagers are a joy to be around – except when they’re not. Do you need tips to …
Overview: Parenting tween & teen boys can be mainly a STRUGGLE or mainly a JOYFUL experience. These positive parenting tips for tween & teen sons will TRANSFORM your relationship for the better! If you have a tween or teen son, you probably feel a bit beaten up from time to time. Raising children is a …
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Overview: Want your son to become a responsible man someday? Have him do hard things now. Our sons are men in training! Here are 11 suggestions for raising a son who will become a real man. Includes a Raising Responsible Sons Worksheet. No matter where you look today, the same battle cry is sounding forth: Where …
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Overview: Wondering how to wake up a teenager? Or what time you should take him up? Or if you even SHOULD? Here are 7 tips for getting your teenager to wake up! When my boys were little, I couldn’t figure out any way to keep them in bed after 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. Once …
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Overview: As our boys approach and enter the teen years, they often pull away from us. This is normal! But we don’t have to stand by and let it happen. Here are 12 ways to connect with your teenage son. From the time our sons are little, we work on developing a good relationship with them. …
Should we all be preparing our homeschooled kids for college? Or is there a college alternative which would be a better option for some of our teens? College has fast become the normal path for most students after they finish their high school studies. However, now that my boys are both high school age, I …
The digital age brings a wealth of information and conveniences, but we cannot ignore the risks it poses for our families as well. As parents of boys, it’s extremely important that we are aware of what they’re doing when they’re on the internet. There are so many ways that they can be led astray – …
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Looking for ways to connect with your son? It used to be more natural to be a good dad to a teenage son. Hundreds of years ago, fathers were one of the number one influences on their teenage sons. Boys used to spend lots of time with their dads working the farm, learning the family trade, …
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