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Real Life: Family -- Your brothers and sisters can upset you sometimes. You may get angry if they take something that is yours, go into your room, hit you, or bother you when you have friends over. Your older brothers or sisters may try to boss you around and tell you what to do. Your younger brothers or sisters may borrow your things or want to be around you all the time.
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Real Life: Parents -- Your relationship with your parents may be confusing right now. As you are growing and changing, you have more responsibilities and also more freedom to spend time with other people like friends or dating partners. While you may feel ready to make your own decisions about where and when you go places, your parents will put limits on you. The reason that your parents do this is because they care about you and want to protect you from danger.
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How a Father Became One of His Teenage Daughter's Best Friends -- It may seem impossible to believe, but today’s teens do want to consider their parents as friends, even though they think we could never understand the realities of their world. They are also interested in what it was like being a teenager during the Stone Age. Life without cell phones or the Internet must have been unimaginable!
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10 Tips for Parenting Teens -- Here are a handful of potentially helpful ideas about being a parent of a teenager. The stars indicate that there is additional information at the end.
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Overprotective Parent: A Mother's Story -- As the mother of three daughters, I couldn’t wait until the teenage years. I was looking forward to talking about boys, make-up, school dances, and proms. I was excited to share my high school memories with them and to let them know that I understood their feelings about growing up.
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What Every Teen Should Hear -- Raising teens is not easy, but sometimes we have to compromise and remember when we were teens ourselves. We all have our own ways of raising our kids and a lot of our choices and beliefs are based on religion, culture, and how we were raised.
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Raising a Violent-Free Teen in 10 Easy Steps -- The disquieting behavior of teenagers in the 21st century, is being hailed by experts as a disturbing trend among troubled youth. Such an interpretation may be factual, but mental heath advocates maintain there are guidelines parents can utilize before problems reach the critical stage.
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Unilateral Disarmament - The First Step to Improving Communications with Your Teenager -- Many times, we are so conditioned in how we speak that we do not realize whether or not we are effectively communicating with our teens. This is especially true when they upset us.
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All Quiet on the Easter Front: Surviving "Family Time" -- I've noticed that as we get older we do our best to avoid spending time with our families. I'm not one to judge, because I do it too, but there seems to a stigma about so-called "family-time." This past weekend, Easter, in case you didn't know, was a big chunk of family-time for me, and I managed to survive. You can do it too.
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Ten Ways To Become Your Teenager's Best Friend -- Best friends! It may seem impossible to believe, but today's teens do want to consider their parents as friends, even though they think we could never understand the realities of their world. They are also interested in what it was like being a teenager during the Stone Age. Life without cell phones or the Internet must have been unimaginable!
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