Tweens & Teens

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 the mamas: It’s the first week of school, which means your tween or teen might be asking for more new clothes, if he or she hasn’t bagged them already. To help you navigate […]

By Dr. Billy Jones, father and child psychologist with Mercy Health According to a 2007 research study, 82% of Americans own a cell phone. This amounts to about 250 million people. Of those 250 million, […]

By Dr. Billy Jones, psychologist with Mercy Health  A few weeks ago, this website asked a question in an online quiz that went like this: “Which of the following behaviors would bother you most if […]