Tag: teenagers

Teens and drugs. None of us likes to think our kids will ever take drugs. Depending on your views, that might include using tobacco...

What happened? Suddenly, it seems your kid is a selfish, ungrateful jerk who wants to do everything on their own and always ends up...

Watching kids turn into teenagers is by turns fascinating, frustrating and downright frightening. We’ve already been there ourselves of course, but it doesn’t seem...

As a parent, we expect challenging behaviour from our kids once they hit the teenage years. We know they're growing up and testing their...

This morning, I had the frustrating experience of plugging in my laptop charger and finding it wouldn’t work. My teenage daughter was about to...

Teenage behaviour often mystifies us. We wonder why they’re drawn to activities and behaviour we consider risky and dangerous – even though, as parents,...

I was 16 years old when I first met Timmy. We were drawn to each other straight away, but we were friends before anything...

At one stage, it seemed everyone lived on Facebook. We knew it was important to keep an eye on what our children were up...

Teenagers and sleep. Two things that never seem to go together at the right time. They’re wide awake in the early hours, then dead...

For as long as we can remember, kids have formed different social circles at school. My own schoolfriends used to talk about the Populars,...