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Tween Sleepovers- Up All Night?
The tween years, for boys and girls, tend to be filled with weekend sleepovers. At least in our house, they were. On a Friday or Saturday afternoon there was the rush of excitement- which friend to...
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Tween Outings- Teaching Responsibility
As your child enters the tween years, he is going to want to spend more time with friends. A lot of this will be spent hanging out at one of their houses- shooting baskets, playing PS4 games, or...
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Tweens Need to Be Seen and Heard
When I was a child and through my teen years, I would sometimes hear at the dinner table the old saying, “Children should be seen and not heard.” (Now, I’m not of an age that it was a common way of...
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Playdates for Tweens?
First of all, we need to start with a quick parenting update- your tween will not want to use the word playdate. Playdates are for little kids. However, don’t let terminology confuse you. Your tween...
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Middle School and the Art of Friendship
There are the friends we choose and the friends that are chosen for us. Sometimes relationships aren’t quite so simple as we’d like. Middle school is a hornets’ nest of new feelings, experiences,...
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3 Ways to Assess Pet Readiness
Bringing a new pet into the home can be an amazing experience or an awful one, especially when tweens are involved. While pre-teens may express a desire for a cat or a dog, they simple do not...
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4 Super Social Activities for Tweens
Study after study tells parents that children spend too much time on electronic devices. The ramifications of doing so are many, including decreased social development. This summer, work with your...
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4 Fun Places to Build Tween Friendships
The tween years can be described in one word: awkward. Children this age grapple not only with their changing bodies, but they must cope with changing friendships as well. It’s not as easy as asking...
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Social Media and Your Tween
Social media has often been deemed as the good, the bad, and the ugly. Like most everything, depending upon how it is used determines if it is a benefit or a detriment. If you are the parent of a...
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Tweens and Twitter
Twitter is one of the largest and most popular social media sites on the internet. It allows for quick and easy communication between friends but limits posts to 140 characters, so long dissertations...
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