As the media gets more and more powerful and widespread, it’s accessibility increases as well. For example, the latest music culture, which has adopted the motto “sex sells”, seems to be doing very well as millions of fans buy in to the glamorized notions of partying and promiscuity. While there is nothing wrong with this, art is art and self-expression is self-expression, but what’s important to note is the effect this is having on the younger generation.
Just take Youtube videos for example – a nine year old can recite all the lyrics to Kesha’s “Tik Tok”; a toddler can do …
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Music and Kids
Teens With Medical Needs: Social Situations
Do you have a special needs teenager? If you do, you know how stressful government and state programs can be. You have to apply and reapply to join a simple social organization, or even pay dues. You are already stressed enough as it is with a special medical needs teen, let alone dealing with these bureaucratic organizations. It is so much easier to start a small non-profit organization for teens with special needs. Your teen needs to socialize for healthy mental growth, while they socialize with you often, they need to socialize with others who are not related to them in order …
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Teens and Self Discipline
A teen after puberty has a massive amount of hormones that course through their veins and saturate their brains with feelings of selfishness, sex desires and freedom. These are usually the only things that their thoughts can be associated with. The “Now, Now, Now” mentality is so prevalent, that you might consider de-spoiling your child. This is not how to do things. They cannot help their overbearing need to have everything, “right now”. So what do we do? We teach. As parents our jobs as teachers never ends.
Example: Your child comes home from school, “Mom! I need …
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Your Teen: The Next President?
Most parents, those who actually care about their children, want to see them succeed in everything they do. The day that baby is born and wraps their little hands around your finger, you quietly imagine what they will grow up to be one day. Will they be a lawyer, a doctor or even President? We all think that our children will grow up and be the most amazing soul the world has yet to see. But unfortunately without your guidance, they will not grow to that potential. If you are not careful you can hinder what they do with their lives. This is not meant to put more pressure or guilt …
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Parenting a Lazy Teen
After puberty there are only a few things a teen thinks about on a regular basis, and being active is not one of them. Sexually active maybe, but not actively engaging in sports or physical activities that are not sex related. Their focus is shadowed by the hormones that are prevalent in all teenagers.
This is not to say they are lazy, they are just less focused than they were just a year before puberty. You almost have to force your teen onto a soccer field if the soccer field does not contain a possible love interest. You can extort those hormones by finding out what the possible …
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