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Vive La Difference!
During the Junior High years, tweenagers are beginning to really come into their own, socially. The natural inclination of the human condition is to seek out others similar to ourselves. While there...
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Forming Social Circles in Middle School
Junior High School can be a scary time in the life of a child. Entering the tween years with all sorts of new and unwanted changes going on inside their bodies, these transitional years can be...
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Rites of Passage
I had what you would call an “awakening” this Halloween and it was somewhat alarming to me since it involved my thirteen year old son. Now we don’t take this holiday too terribly seriously. Let’s...
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Risks in the Life of a Tween
The Tween years are the time when children start taking risks. Some risks, like cutting school or smoking cigarettes, are always bad. But there are good risks, too. Like trying out for the school...
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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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Tween Dating: An Introduction
Dating. It’s a topic most parents hoped to avoid a little longer. But here you are, with a tween at home and all around her friends are “dating” classmates. And there’s this boy in math class… Take...
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How to Raise a Socially-Conscious Tween
Raising your tween to be socially conscious will help your child become more compassionate and helpful to others as your tween becomes more aware of the problems that members of your local community...
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4 Party Themes for Tweens
Children transform into social butterflies once their tween years hit. They begin to see friendships as much more important, and they look for ways to feel that they belong to a group. One way to...
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Choose Friends Wisely
The Tweenage years are a crucial time of social development. 10-12 year olds are discovering the broader world outside and struggle to find their place in it. Your child will have to make a number...
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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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From Tween to Teen – Ensuring a Smooth Transition
Where does the time go? It seems as though only yesterday you were swapping clean diapers for dirty ones and your little bambino was on hands and knees crawling about on the floor. With more and more...
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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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The Tween Years – Socialization Skills
The tween years are often awkward for a child. On one hand, they are reluctant to leave their childhood behind, while on the other hand they are anxious for their impending teen-hood and all it...
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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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Snapchat. Is it Kid Friendly?
With so many social media platforms, and new ones popping up almost daily, how can we as parents be certain which ones are right for our children? Which ones offer the proper level of security and...
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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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Tweens and Instagram
If you have a tween who owns a device that runs on the Android or iOS platform, they might have an Instagram account. However, Instagram, like all other social media platforms, has a policy of not...
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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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