Tweens & Teens

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tweens and Teens: Removing the ‘but’ from your conversations with teens

07/22/2021 nwamamas

Hey, mamas. Whether you have teens or not, this video clip is such an eye-opener. Shannon and I both have teenagers, and this video we saw on the Your Teen magazine website made us realize […]

Tweens & Teens: Social media’s impact on girls

06/23/2021 nwamamas

Between the two of us, Shannon and I both have multiple teenagers now. So we’re reading everything we can get our hands on about teens and how to navigate those tricky waters. If you have […]

Is your tween or teenager lonely?

04/02/2021 nwamamas

Mamas, we know the pandemic has been hard on all of us. But there’s no denying it has had a distinct effect on tweens and teenagers. Can you even imagine how your teenage self would’ve […]

Advice for the Class of 2020 from Northwest Arkansas retirees

05/28/2020 nwamamas

As the mamas of two high school seniors, we were especially touched by the kind words shared by residents of Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville. The last part of our teenagers’ senior year has been […]

Tweens & Teens: My kid is missing his senior year

04/08/2020 nwamamas

As many of you know, Shannon and I each have a high school senior at home right now. Shannon’s daughter and my son will be graduating in May and then heading off to college in […]

Out of the Box Birthday Party Idea: Big Box Karaoke

02/18/2019 nwamamas

My favorite picture from my daughter’s 17th birthday party is of her posing with her 3 besties under the mural just inside the front door at downtown Fayetteville’s newest Japanese-style hangout, Big Box Karaoke on […]