by Janice Heddon | Apr 29, 2015 | Parenting 101
I did a little experiment on my teens the other day. I made myself a cup of coffee, grabbed some Nachos and sat down with a lifestyle magazine in the living room when my children were supposedly having some family time. Needless to say that they are were engrossed in...
by Janice Heddon | Apr 28, 2015 | Parenting 101
In the 1st part of this post, we discussed how knowing these cool words can come in so handy when you’re tackling teens! So here we go with some more cool words they so love to use all the time! 5. Sick As is the case with slang phrases, sick doesn’t refer...
by Janice Heddon | Apr 27, 2015 | Parenting 101
We just did a piece on how parents sometimes try to sound cool and how awfully it offends and embarrasses teens? Well, it’s always been that way, no? Remember how we used to cringe when our parents would say, “Hey buddy, come here and gimme some skin” when we’d enter...
by Janice Heddon | Apr 21, 2015 | Parenting 101
Change is a strange part of life. We all need change sometimes: a change in environment, job, wardrobe, eating habits, even friends. But sometimes, we just want to cling onto time and never let it change. We don’t want to grow old, we don’t want our safe, predictable...
by Janice Heddon | Apr 14, 2015 | Parenting 101
Hovering too much? This is what we discussed in our previous blog. We discussed some classic symptoms of a helicopter parent and talked about how it can affect tweens and teens. But in this post, we will talk about how you can avoid being a helipad or a helicopter...
