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What if High School Becomes Impossible for Your Kids?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 8, 2018 | Parenting Teenagers

Can high school become a toxic environment? Absolutely. I want to talk briefly today about 13 Reasons Why (the Netflix show), but don’t worry if you don’t care about that show. I’m going to make a bigger point that applies to all of us. When the...

10 Things to Know About Porn and Your Family

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 8, 2018 | Pornography

Porn hurts families. It’s that simple. Porn is not harmless, no matter how much it may be portrayed as something “fun” or, at the very least, a “victimless crime” (as if those in porn aren’t victims themselves – porn is...

Reader Question: Help! My Child Saw a Sex Photo of Us!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 6, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers, Pornography

Okay, for Reader Question Monday I thought I’d run one of the most cringe-worthy questions I’ve ever received: What do you do if your child sees a sex photo of you? A reader writes: My 10 year old daughter began using a laptop for school this year, but she...

How Do I Keep My Teenage Son from Getting Addicted to Gaming?

by Rebecca Lindenbach | May 18, 2017 | Family, Parenting Teenagers

The average age of a gamer is now 31. Ten years ago that was not the case. But as video games are becoming a part of more and more teens and children’s lives, we’re just going to see video games become a bigger part of adulthood, too. So it makes sense...

10 Important Truths from 13 Reasons Why–with Discussion Questions

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 25, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers

Teenage suicide should never be romanticized. There is a lot of buzz that Netflix’s new series 13 Reasons Why does just that. I disagree. I watched it over the last week, and I have rarely seen a show that so captures the complexities and grittiness of teenage...

Stealing Our Kids from Technology: Let’s Get Them Back!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 7, 2017 | Parenting Teenagers

Does technology eat up so much of your kids’ time that they have little interest in family? I ran a column a few years ago on how we need to bring our kids back into the family. As we’ve been talking this week about how to prepare kids for marriage (and...