The Wall Street Journal asked a psychologist who practices with a focus on parenting and relationships for her thoughts on tracking teens with GPS tracking systems. This expert said that teenagers need to earn their parents’ trust and this takes time. This expert did suggest that parents tell teens that their driving is being monitored, […]
Spring is here. Birds are chirping. It is getting warmer outside and the great outdoors beckons more now than it has for the last few months.
Prom and graduation season will be upon us before we know it. And if you are the parents of a teenager, you may already be hearing about your child’s plans […]
Recently, I was thumbing through a magazine and there was an article about how to tell your elderly parents that you are taking away their car keys. That is definitely a touchy subject.
Although we have never managed to discover the fountain of youth, we have made enough advances in medical technology to live a lot […]
You know the classic scene—a driver gets pulled over for speeding. They sigh, slow down, and pull over. A police officer exits a squad car, taps on the driver’s side window, and asked that famous question, “Do you have any idea how fast you were going back there?” Answers may vary from “ I don’t […]
Disputes between teen drivers and their parents have been popping up all over the news recently. Did you hear about the woman who placed a classified ad to sell the car she’d given her son after she found alcohol under one of the seats?
Of course her son was not pleased, but the woman’s actions were […]
Three Laotian teenage boys were having trouble adjusting to American society in the small town where their refugee families had been sent to live after the Vietnam war. It was a mountain logging town. The boys had passed their high school courses admirably, but life in this new land just didn’t seem to […]
Last year about this time we heard loud sirens and the roar of a helicopter just at dusk. On enquiring the next day, we learned that it had been Joe, who lived in a house nearby who had been rushed to the hospital. It had been rumored that he was a heavy drinker, […]
It seems a little unfair that 18th birthdays often fall so close to high school graduation. Suddenly our children are regarded by the world as responsible adults. Combine this with the newfound feeling of freedom that goes with the ending of compulsory education and it’s a dynamite high! The sobering sense of […]
We miss Ted. He came to us when he was 12 and offered to stack our firewood. He was a sturdy kid, the wood was stacked in no time, we paid him and he was off, all happy with his earnings. We called his mother to compliment her on her hard working son. […]
At 21 Derrick was on top of the world. The son of the owner of a thriving manufacturing firm, he was a student at a prestigious college, he was successful with the ladies, he had a promising future — and he had a convertible. Derrick loved to drive and he […]