parenting teens

okay, so im 15, and ik its probably odd for a teenager to be posting here but i need to know about something regarding your child's privacy. so a long time ago i got the lock on my door taken away. it was understandable; i'd been spending too much time upstairs in my room with my phone. but that...

How do you all manage any grocery requests from your teen? Mine has been putting tons of junk on our shopping list. For example on our last list for the weekly shop she had: can of whipped cream, caramel sauce, frozen chicken sandwiches, frozen breakfast sandwiches, ice cream, chai tea, brie...

My daughter is 15 and her cycles still don't seem very regular. She has gotten her period for 3 years (almost exactly). We went to a GYN last year, who did some basic blood work, and everything came back normal. She told us that it can take "a few years" for cycles to regulate. Well, it's...

I have one bio kid (the 17yoDD), 15SD who doesn’t really like me and isn’t interested in having a relationship with me even though I just want to be there for her and give her love and who is here every other weekend and on Wed. and Thurs. nights) with my BF, 16SS/13SD (who I used to still have...

Tale as old as time with teenager. Freshman has been doing less than his best and came out of his very basic social studies class with a "c". Yeah I know, not the end of the world, but this is seriously bottom of the barrel for available freshman social studies classes. I also know there are...

My teenage daughter (14) has recently been getting a few referrals in school -- generally for distracting others, but also for being rude and confrontational with teachers sometimes. I have been up to school to speak to her guidance teacher, and he said that she has never once been on the radar...

My 8th grader just got a phone despite my extreme apprehension (I'm old school and he doesn't have a need to communicate with me because I'm a SAHM). We just moved to a new school where he doesn't know anyone. He's taking it with him for safety reasons due to his method of getting to and from...

Personally, it doesn't bother me. So long as he keeps them clean, I don't mind. But I'm afraid that he'll be judged by others. He currently has both eyebrows pierced, septum, and a piercing in each ear. Now he wants a nostril piercing, second piercings in each ear, and a conch (?) piercing. He...

So my 16year old son has been rather irresponsible lately and I’m pulling phone privileges among other things. He purchased his iPhone w his own money so I don’t want to take that away but I’m planning to change his service to a basic flip phone. I need to be able to call or text him and we...

My son (15) is failing 4 out of 7 of his freshman year classes. One of those classes is a study hall and all he has to do to get 100% is show up. The other two classes are band and gym, and he has a B and a C respectively in those classes. The other 4 classes, he has a 17%, 37%, 47%, and 53%...

Lots of battles with my seventh grade daughter to wear a coat to the bus stop when it is 33 degrees outside. One day I drove her to school and noticed that the overwhelming majority of kids don’t wear coats. Is this a phenomenon everywhere? It is trendy to shiver in the cold?

My son turned 16 in March and got his license the day after. A week later his father gave him one of his cars to use as his own (we are separated and he lives 2 hours away). It’s a sedan in great condition. Since school let out in mid June, my son has caused over $1,000 in damage to the front...

My 13 year old son has searched for child porn twice on his phone, we had a very long conversation about it and the seriousness of what he had done, he said he didn’t know it was that serious and that he will never ever do it again, and since then he has not, but I am so worried about it. I...

Our 15-year-old daughter is totally unable or unwilling to self-regulate when it comes to her iPhone. She has figured her way around every safeguard, and would have her eyes glued to it 24/7 if we weren’t paying attention. Without getting into a ton of detail about exactly what precipitated it...

Original post here if anyone wants to read it: I took him yesterday to his first appointment with a pediatric psychriatrist that specializes in ADHD. The three of us spent about 2 hours talking (most of the questions were directed at my son, but some at me, such as things that pertained to...

Okay. So we have a 15 y.o daughter....she'll be 16 in 2 months. Her boyfriend just turned 17. They both work at Wendy's and as it's the summer....They're having them both close....so off work at 1-1:30am. He has his license and a car and it's only 3 miles up the road from us....so on those...

My step'dad' has already done bad stuff numerous times to me even when i was little (hitting me and throwing me against the stairs around ages 7 and 10) and i know this isn't as bad as that probably but i'd been awake at 2 am and he stormed updtairs to yell at me and chase me back to my room, he...

I know that this post will be missing a lot of context, mostly because I don't have the energy to get into all the details right now, but I'm feeling that it may be getting close to time for my soon-to-be 18 year old to leave the nest. Basically, as the title says, I just want to know who all...

Just a heads up that my 13-year-old was able to buy a 6 inch flip knife on temu.com. I called Customer Service and got his account deleted but when I asked to be transferred to a supervisor to figure out how this even happened they put me on hold for over an hour, and then I gave up. There’s no...

I have 2 boys 9 and 13. The 9 year old is curious, thoughtful, creative, makes bucket lists has passion and interests. My 13 year year old is sweet and kind, gets straight A’s. But he has no interests or passions. He is not a thinker if that makes sense. No real sense of curiosity. How do I help...