Family Life - In General
Dad’s pot habit riles daughter
Editor’s Note: Yes, I did say to tell on the sister. I really do have no love for marijuana or lame habits. And the younger you are when you start, the worse the potential effects. As I’ve said before, today’s weed is 10-25…
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Can you trust calling parents for a ride?
Editor’s Web Note: Many parents insist they can be called. But parents, will your teen actually call you? In a 2007 Center for Disease Control survey, in that past month, three out of ten teenagers rode in a car with a driver who had…
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Fatherlessness a major factor in teen failures
Editor’s Web Note: As of 2003, there were 10 million single-mother families and 2 million single-father families in this country. As educated young women grow more and more dedicated to achievements and careers, many are opting for…
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Stepdad’s smoke permeates small apartment
Editor’s Web Note: To all teens who smoke: Quit now. Not only is it easier when you’re young, but today’s letter could be written about you in a few short years. Do you think “Stepdad” ever saw this…
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Hey Sis, put some clothes on
Editor’s Web Note: It’s difficult enough for a boy these days with all these alpha females everywhere, but this commonplace situation for solo boys raised in all-female households puts it over the top in total ridiculousness.…
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Teach your children well… about sex, porn, love
Editor’s Web Note: The sex industry has, well, industrialized sex. Sexual intimacy is reduced to body parts (most of them surgically enhanced). Porn is the great desensitizer. What used to stimulate no longer does. College-age men,…
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Twin beds, open dialogue best solution for sleepover issues
Editor’s Web Note: The Boomer and Gen X parents of today’s Millennials have a lot of catching up to do to get on board with all the changes taking place since they were teens. The commonality of the gay-straight sleepover is…
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Gay-straight sleepover debate gets no rest
Editor’s Note: We deal with some tough issues in this column! One thing I’ve noticed when people bring up concerns about sexuality (and/or pornography) is they are accused of being old, frightened by sexuality, or killjoys. Which…
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Boy’s sexting collection considered child porn
Editor’s Web Note: As a teen advocate, I’ve felt the fascination by the adult community about teen sexting has been overblown — and diversionary. Here we have over 50 percent of the adult population watching pornography…
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Do electronic distractions make you dumb?
Editor’s Web Note: Talk about brain drain. Multi-tasking is the biggest mass waste of our evolved brain to date. As you see from the Hewlett Packard-commissioned study that I cite below, constant tending to emails, texts, Facebook,…
