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Topic: Families and Relationships

Relationships are complicated, whether it’s communicating with parents and siblings or breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend. You can find the help you need to build strong, loving relationships with friends and family through communication.

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Family Ideas for Getting Teens Interested in the World

Adolescent parenting requires creativity to get teens interested in the world beyond themselves. Here are some family ideas to interest your teen in current events.

Teenagers' Issues: Facts on Sexuality

Get the facts about teenage peer pressure and sexuality. You will be alarmed at some of the statistics as they relate to teenagers' relationships and sex.

Parents' Relationships with Teens Require New Communication Skills

Parents' relationships with their teens change when adolescent behaviors seem to close off channels of communication. Here's how to get them to open up.

Parents' Issues: Don't Let Stress Overtake Your Life

Every parent feels stressed at times. It's how we deal with parent stress that's key to staying sane. Learn how to maintain your personal health and wellness and keep peace at home.

Listening Skills Help Adolescent Parenting

If your teens never tell you anything, maybe you're not using the right listening skills. To parent teenagers, you need to review how to listen so kids will talk.

Family Devotion Affects Teenagers' Behavior

Studies have shown that parents who spend quality time with their kids and help them set goals produce kids with less teenagers' issues. Learn the secret to raising healthier teens.

Making Peace with Your Parents: Relationships Can Survive Holiday Stress

The holidays are not always happy, when parents' relationships with their own parents are unhealthy or negative. One woman discovered how to make peace with her past.

Tips for Successful Adolescent Parenting when Blending Families through Remarriage

New marriages can cause stress in children as they adjust to a step-parent and step-siblings. A parent's relationships with the new spouse and any set of kids should be handled carefully and with planning.

Six Places To Find Real Friends On Campus

Students who get involved in campus life and find good friends in college are more likely to graduate. Join the party and get the academic pay-offs too.

Teenager's Stories: What I Learned the Hard Way about Teenage Peer Pressure

One student shares her real-life story filled with advice for teenagers on how to identify real friends. She shares how teenage peer pressure destroyed a friendship and caused other problems.

When Is Disrespect a Sign of Something Serious?

If you are having issues with your teenager's behavior, and your teen's respect is lacking, before it becomes something serious, let us help.

Birth Order and Children's Behaviors

Did you know that firstborn children can be perfectionists, while the baby of the family tends to take more risks? Being aware of how birth order affects what we say and do can help parents with everything from teaching chara...

Family Ideas for Getting Along

Whether they're working on toddler learning or teaching character, brothers and sisters have a lot to give one another. Take a peek inside several households to see how these families relate.

Real Life Story: "I'm Listening, Dear"

How do mothers and daughters communicate when personality differences crop up? This mom does whatever it takes to listen—even it if takes all night.

Real Life Story: Making Allowances

Children’s allowances can present challenges for parents. Having a sense of humor helps! Read about one family’s experiences with the world of money: allowances, jobs, and attitudes toward this necessary evil.

Real Life Story: Dropping Out without Falling Through

Read about one mom’s story and how, despite her son’s oppositional behavior, she managed to keep him from dropping out while giving him a very distinctive outlook on life.

Why Kids Drop Out of School

The risk factors in this article are the main reasons teens are dropping out of high school. Learn about each future predictor for dropping out and how to keep your kid in school and on the path to success.

What Parents Can Do to Keep a Child from Dropping Out of School

Research shows that parents of students of all ages can play an important part in keeping their kids in school and making sure they graduate successfully. Learn tips for elementary, middle school, and high school success.

Teens, Body Image, and Self-esteem

This article on body image explores how to tell the difference between normal teenage behavior and actions that are cause for concern. The article goes on to explain what to do if your teen’s behavior is worrisome.

Eating Disorder Facts for Parents of Middle School Girls

If you have a teenage or preteen girl, you will want to read the alarming gender behavior statistics about eating disorders and other adolescent behaviors that are presented in this article.

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