Tweens & Teens

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]