At Home With Your Teen
Practical advice for daily life with teenagers at home. Articles address chores, money matters, house rules, and encouraging communication with your teen.
Common Chores for Teens
Help your teen build life skills and household responsibility by assigning age-appropriate chores like cooking and cleaning.
Encouraging Teens to Use Banks and Save Money
Teaching your teen to save money and use a bank account sets them up with skills they'll rely on their whole life.
Encouraging Your Teenager to Talk
Getting your teenager to open up takes patience, but these practical tips can help rebuild the conversations you're missing.
Facebook and Your Teen
Help your teen use Facebook safely by understanding the risks and taking steps to protect them online.
Getting Your Teen to Clean His Room
Help your teen keep their room acceptably clean by setting realistic expectations and basic rules they can actually follow.
Helping Your Teen Gain Financial Responsibility
Help your teen learn to manage money and avoid debt by teaching them financial responsibility skills they'll need as adults.
House Rules Regarding Sleepovers
Set clear house rules for teen sleepovers to keep your home safe and establish expectations with your teen and their guests.
How to Make Your Teen Self-Sufficient
Teach your teen practical life skills like cooking, cleaning and sewing so they can look after themselves when they leave home.
Setting Bedtimes and Curfews
Help your teen accept bedtimes and curfews without the constant battle over sleep schedules.
Should You Monitor Teen Internet Use?
Weighing the pros and cons of monitoring your teen's internet activity and what approaches actually work.
Single Parents and Teens
Single parents raising teens face unique challenges, but a strong bond and open communication can help navigate the difficult years ahead.
Teaching Teenagers to Cook
Help your teenager learn to cook by teaching kitchen safety, proper food handling, and cooking techniques they'll use for life.
Teaching Your Teen About Money Management
Help your teen learn money management by letting them handle their own clothing budget and learn from real experience.
Teaching Your Teen About Online Safety
Help your teen stay safe online by teaching them what personal information to share and which internet dangers to watch out for.
Teaching Your Teenager Essential Skills
Help your teenager build practical skills like cooking and car maintenance that actually matter for independence and their future.
What About Pocket Money?
Linking pocket money to chores and behaviour helps teach teens responsibility while getting some household help in return.
When Your Teen Leaves Home
Help your teen become independent before they leave home with practical skills and supplies they'll actually need.
When Your Teen Wants to Have a Party
Help your teen throw a safe party at home by setting clear rules and building trust around the event.