Browsing the "teenagers" Tag
Fitting Cows
December 12th, 2024 | by D'Ann Drennan
I’m glad C is confident, but I wish we could raise him somewhere else, in a region where I wouldn’t worry about his safety.
Talking to Myself
October 25th, 2024 | by Sacha Mardou
Parenting is so different now that my kid is almost 15 years old
The Next Episode
September 17th, 2024 | by Jamie Passaro
I buy a giant black sunhat to protect my aging skin because I saw it on Instagram. My daughters tell me it’s “giving pilgrim.”
The Application
July 30th, 2024 | by Serena Menken
How do I explain, in just a few sentences, our family’s journey into the dark pit of mental illness in a way that you could understand and still believe in my seventeen-year-old daughter’s strength
Alone
August 29th, 2023 | by Caroline M. Grant
I look around my comfortable house—its walls and roof dramatically sturdier than the shelters on Alone—and I am grateful, but: I kind of want to run away.
Better
August 15th, 2023 | by Charise Alexander Adams
She may never fully believe she can depend on me – she has been let down too many times. These things are part of the gulf between us that can never be closed – but it can be bridged
Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid
Samir
April 11th, 2023 | by Mahru Elahi
While I was moving through the vetting process to become a foster parent for a refugee youth, I was intentional