(2008/11/22)
Q: I know your column is focused on parenting teens, but I have some 20-something kids I think you can help me with. I see information in your column that reminds me of my kids, but because of their age I feel like I need to change how I approach them.
(2008/11/22)
Here’s something you already know, but don’t know you know: Children love to be ignored.
(2008/11/15)
Q: With the holidays approaching, I begin to think about the challenges our family faces to make sure our teens get time with grandparents and relatives on all sides. The kids get real frustrated by the obligations and don’t want to go anywhere.
(2008/11/15)
Q: Ever since I had children, now 7 and 5, I have resented sacrificing my executive position in the work force for staying home and giving 150 percent to my children to make sure they succeed in life.
(2008/11/08)
Q: Having teens means being busy with all their activities as well as my own, which I won’t mind. What I do mind is that our second teen, who is a junior wants to eliminate some of his activities.
(2008/11/08)
Q: I hope I am over-thinking this, but my normally happy
(2008/11/01)
Q: I have 17- and 19-year-old sons. One is in high school, and the other is in his first year of college at Western Technical College here in La Crosse.
(2008/11/01)
On numerous occasions from the time I was 12 years old, my parents would let me walk from our house in Westchester, Ill., to the nearest bus stop (five short blocks), catch a bus to the westernmost terminus of Chicago’s elevated train system (15 miles), take the “L” into downtown Chicago (20 miles), spend the day bumming around the Loop, and then backtrack my way home.
(2008/10/25)
Q: My husband and I have had good communication and cohesiveness with our parenting style until now.
(2008/10/25)
Q: In a recent column, you had the audacity to say that parents should not be involved with their children. As you are certainly aware, this isn’t what we parents are being encouraged, from every direction, to do. Can you elaborate and explain?
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