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Tweens & Teens

Tips for parenting modern tweens and teens.

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Tweens & Teens: How we can stay close during the pulling-away years

10/19/2022 nwamamas

Mamas, we are always on the lookout for great articles and posts that help us navigate the teen years. Shannon and I both have teens right now so we need all the tips and insight […]

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Links to dorm packing lists for college move-in

08/15/2022 nwamamas

Happy Monday, Northwest Arkansas mamas! Shannon and I both have kids in college these days, and they’ll be on campus again soon. My oldest son will begin his junior year of college soon, and my […]

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The manners checklist for your kids

08/08/2022 nwamamas

When I was pregnant with our first child, Tom and I went to the home of one of his co-workers to have dinner. Shortly after we arrived, the couple’s two little kids appeared in the […]

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Tweens & Teens: 7 signs that your teen might be vaping

07/11/2022 nwamamas

7 signs that your teen might be vaping Mamas, if you’ve read or watched the news lately, you know there has been a huge unexplained spike in deaths related to vaping (or e-cigarettes). Many of […]

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Tweens & Teens: What’s on our bookshelf right now

06/21/2022 nwamamas

Parenting tweens and teens can feel a little out of control sometimes. Did we say too much? Are we saying enough? So advice from someone who’s navigated these waters before is helpful. That’s why I […]

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Teen texting abbreviations explained

03/30/2022 nwamamas

If you do safety checks on your teen’s phone from time to time but feel a little lost when trying to understand a text trail with friends, here’s a list that explains what most of […]

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How to get teenagers to listen

02/23/2022 nwamamas

Happy Thursday, mamas! Shannon has one teenager and I have two of them right now. And my third kid is less than a year away from attaining teen status. So we KNOW how difficult it […]

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What if your kid just isn’t all that social?

02/07/2022 nwamamas

Mamas, I related to every word of this article on the website Grown and Flown. I spent way too much time worrying about the fact that my oldest son often preferred to eat lunch at […]

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Freaking out about college stuff? Read this.

10/07/2021 nwamamas

Mamas, when Shannon and I founded this website in 2008, our oldest kids were in Kindergarten. Those sweet babies have now morphed into JUNIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! No one is more surprised than we are […]

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Tweens & Teens: When they get emotionally distant

09/18/2021 nwamamas

Note from Gwen & Shannon: This Tweens & Teens Q&A features real-life answers from NWA mamas. We’ve asked the moms to write anonymously so they can be as brutally honest as possible. One of the […]

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