Consequences that Work When Teenage Girls Break the Rules

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

Raising a teenage girl certainly comes with it’s share of joys and challenges. As your daughter enters adolescence, it’s normal – and important- for her to test parental limits. Testing boundaries and rules is vital to a teens development as they begin to assert their independence and learn how to relate to [...]

Bad Boys and Good Girls: What to do if your teenage daughter dates “bad boys.”

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

When your daughter reaches dating age, it’s always a challenge. Though my own daughter’s are not teens, I remember all too well the subtle attraction my girlfriends and I had to “bad boys” growing up and I secretly loathe the possibility that my girls may someday bring home “Mr. Not-Good-Enough” for me [...]

Is Your Girl Too Good?

By Joanne Stern, PhD.

Is it your goal to raise a daughter who is good and obedient, always behaving without argument? Is this your idea of a “model” child? I hope not, because having a girl who is too good is not always a good idea.
Let me tell you why.
As parents you want to help your [...]

Rank and File: The Teen Girl “Ranking System.”

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

As adults, we’re used to the rank & file world we live in. Professionals check to see where they rank in organizations. The media keeps tabs on where it ranks in Neilson and viewer ratings. Bloggers and website owners keep their fingers crossed that their Google Page Rank will continue to increase. [...]

Cyber Dating: What every teacher, parent, and girl should know.

By: Mary Jo Rapini, LPC.

If you knew what I know about cyber-dating you would be very afraid. You would fear the ease in which a child under 18 years of age can sign up and what it can do to a child’s life. Although dating services sites are usually restricted to people less than 18 [...]

PDA and Your Teen Daughter: How Affectionate Is Too Affectionate?

By: Mary Jo Rapini, LPC.

Teens are advertising their relationships out in public all the time. Go to Facebook, or MySpace and you can see whom they are dating, whom they formerly dated, and basically everything they have done in the past month. It is scary, especially if that teen happens to be yours.
Even when your [...]

Sexting 101: What you Need to Know as a Parent

By: Erik Fisher, PhD AKA Dr. E…

“My daughter may be doing what?” Yes, Mom and Dad, the phenomenon of “Sexting” is taking off (no pun intended). If you don’t know what “Sexting” is, it involves people, mostly teens, taking nude pictures of themselves and sending them using their cell phones to others. This action has [...]

Is Your Teenage Daughter Driving You Nuts? A Lesson in Energy Profiling.

By Carol Tuttle, MRET.

Sally came to me frustrated over her daughter’s random, forgetful habits. She told me, “she is driving me nuts! I can’t get through to her!” Sally’s natural tendencies are to be very structured and focused. She had experienced conflict for years trying to get her daughter, age 14, to adapt [...]

Six Keys to Help Teen Girls Handle Peer Presssure

By: Carrie Silver-Stock, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.

Every day the teen girl in your life faces many decisions. Some are as simple as deciding what to wear and how she will blend in with her peers at school. Others may ultimately be choices between life and death.
Most girls face immense pressure to fit in and to be accepted [...]

What Every Parent Must Know About Date Rape

What every parent of a daughter should and MUST know about date rape.

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