Coping With Your Teenager

Coping With Your Teenager As your once “easy to manage” child enters adolescence many changes begin to transpire. A once connected relationship with dynamic communication now becomes turbulent, rocky and/or distant.  We wonder as parents, “What are...

5 Things NEVER To Say To Your Teenager

“Raise your hands ALL the way up if you’ve ever regretted something you said to your teenagers.” That’s what I asked a crowded room of parents. Finally one brave soul named George stood up in urgency. “JD, can I speak?” I saw the passion,...

Graduation

I remember the sun beating down on my sweaty neck as I hauled a compressed version of my belongings into a room built to torment a claustrophobic ant. Hundreds of students bustled around me, green with nerves as they balanced desk lamps in laundry baskets with the...