Welcome to the Preteens & Teens corner! This section of the site provides insights and advice for navigating the preteen and teen years. The tween and teen stages of development come with many changes and challenges, and this page is dedicated to supporting parents through this journey. We will be adding posts on important topics like setting boundaries, improving communication, coping with technology and social media, helping with homework, and more.

As our children grow into this most favorite phase for all parents, they can sometimes seem to morph into…well, almost alien life forms. Therefore, as parents, we can find ourselves wondering…”Who are you and what have you done with my fun-loving, sweet and respectful child?”

Change is the inevitable theme for now…growing bodies, interesting fashion choices, confusion about social situations, desire to be more independent and spend less time with family members, higher expectations from school and extracurricular activities, weird sleep patterns…How do we support them through this?

And yet there are so many great things to look forward to!! These kids will learn and grow at an incredible pace; they will discover so many new things about themselves; and they will become the individuals that we have often dreamed they would be.

This is not a time for perfection. This is a time for the messy, moody, mundane, mysterious and marvelous ways of adolescence.

The years go by so fast for Preteens & Teens!! This page is here to help you make the most of this time with your not-so-mini humans.