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Category Archive: Parenting Advice

What can I do about my tween’s snotty tone?

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Catherine Newman answers this question (and more!) in her next installment of Motherwell’s advice column for the parents of teens. Her kids weigh in too!

January 9, 2018 Parenting Advice

What can I do to protect my teen from a toxic friendship?

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Catherine Newman’s next installment of Motherwell’s not-so-ordinary advice column for the parents of teens.

November 28, 2017 Parenting Advice

Is it okay for my 14-year-old son to hug me all the time?

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Catherine Newman’s not-so-ordinary advice column for the parents of teens.

October 30, 2017 Parenting Advice

When somebody says stop, you stop

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I’m raising two boys. And I am conscious of raising them to be people who hear and respond to the word “no.” By Brianne DeRosa

October 18, 2017 Culture, Parenting Advice

Perspective | Yes, I f-ing let my kids curse

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If you calm down about the illicit nature of the words, we’re just talking about talking.
By Brianne DeRosa

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | No swearing in my house

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Our no cursing rule is one way I maintain the boundary between child and adult.
By Lisa Sadikman

November 2, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

Call Me Mrs. Badzin

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If calling me Mrs. Badzin makes me seem more uptight than other people’s parents, I almost welcome that boundary.
By Nina Badzin

June 27, 2016 Parenting Advice

To brag or not to brag?

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There’s a fine line between being proud of our kids and bragging about them. Pride keeps the accomplishment firmly in their own hands. Bragging is a more public endeavor.
By Lisa Sadikman

May 1, 2016 Parenting Advice

Seven and still sucking his thumb

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Seven years on, my son is still a sucker, thumb mostly, but also occasionally sleeves, zippers, the pointed snout of a stuffed animal.
By Daisy Alpert Florin

May 1, 2016 Parenting Advice, Parenting Challenges

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