Tweens & Teens

OK, we know school started last month, but it’s too dang hot in Northwest Arkansas in August to wear traditional “fall clothes”. But it’s officially September now and we can start pretending that the hot […]

Chatterbox Shop in Fayetteville is a new store that has the cutest dance shoes, dance wear and accessories, tween clothing, gifts, and women’s active wear. They’re located at 121 West Township in Fayetteville and have […]

Our friend Rhonda Bramell let her kids go wild recently to create some suitcases for their upcoming summer camp trips. She found these “camp trunks” in the center aisle at Walmart in Springdale for $20. […]

Is this guy “the teen whisperer”? We’re not sure about that, but we really do like some of his videos, which make lot of sense to us. Here’s one about what it means when our […]

Mothers of middle-schoolers are the most depressed? Hmm. In a recent article on the website Aeon, researchers claimed that the most challenging period of mothering (and highest levels of depression can be found) during their […]

Dear t(w)een moms, My teenager recently vented about me on Instagram and I happened to see it. When I looked the next day (I was still trying to figure out how to handle it) she […]

We hope you’re enjoying our new feature! This month we asked our mamas of t(w)eens about how to handle social media, which is one of the biggest differences between when we were teenagers and today’s […]

Note from Gwen & Shannon: We’ve revamped the Tweens & Teens category and it now features real-life answers from real-life moms who have tweens and/or teenagers. We’ve asked the moms to write anonymously so they […]