parenting teens

Hi! First time posting. I’m actually my brothers older sister (19) but my parents are pretty absent when it comes to him and school a lot of it falls on my plate. I need advice on what to do. He has been getting straight F’s in school since 5th grade, always has excuses as to why, never listens...

My boyfriend (35) and I (32) have 4 kids. M-13, F-11, M-9 and M-1. The 13 and 9 yr old are my biological kids from a previous relationship and that father is absent both physically and legally (there's a ppo protecting rhe 3 of us from him due to attempted murder.) 11 yr old is boyfriends from a...

Daughter is 15 and all her friends parents allow their boyfriends to come to their houses for sleepovers in the same room/ bed. I checked with other mum friends outside this particular group - also allow boyfriends to sleepover. Am I old fashioned or what - 15 seems a bit young to me to be...

My (40f) daughter (14) has been dying to get Taylor Swift tickets for the last few months. A week before the concert my coworker got a special code that she could get 4 tickets, she bought 2 for herself and let me use her code to get two tickets. We are not sitting with my coworker. I was so...

I’m 25(f). I have a younger female cousin who’s 12 years old. We’re pretty close. (she lives a few towns over). I follow her on Snapchat and tonight she posted a video of her in a hot tub wearing a skimpy bikini and doing a sexual tik tok dance. (Including sexual mouth licking movements…)...

Just to see his gf. 16yr old boys are nuts. It's -40c here (really damn cold). And he's trying to convince me he can take 2 busses and a train just to go to her house. This trip takes 1.5 hr. That doesn't take into account the waiting for late buses. Skin freezes in 5 to 10 min in this weather...

My daughter is 15 years old and is in tenth grade. She has had a 16 year old boyfriend since before Christmas and the relationship has grown to where it’s about the only thing she cares about. The boy, whom I’ll refer to as J, has fallen hard for A, my daughter, and vise versa apparently. It has...

I (22M) have had full legal guardianship of my 13 year old nephew for a bit over 2 years now, for reasons of abuse and neglect. My father (step in legal terms) has been in my life since I was 7 or 8, and therefore has been in my family longer than my 13 year old nephew. However, he refuses to...

Hi all. I was hoping you could give me (mid-thirties dad of 4 kids, 2 of them teens) some ideas on how to handle my son’s unique personality. He just turned 15. He acts incredibly immature almost 24/7 and it always causes fights amongst all our kids (him and 3 daughters) or between him and us...

My daughter is almost 17. Within the last year she has changed her look dramatically and now has been dressing like an “e-girl”. To be clear, I am not trying to control how she looks. I try to not make comments. But I am so embarrassed by it. She has ruined her looks and people we knew when she...

Background: my daughters lived with their Dad for 5 years (age 10-15). I knew living with him was going to end very bad. But the court decided in his favor and off they went. About 2 years into it my daughter, we'll call her Lilly, stopped talking to me. She believed I was the reason her Dad...

He thought I was saying I’d tell my nutrition class that he wasn’t eating beans but I was just going to tell them you can’t force anyone to eat things. It was a misunderstanding but before I finished my sentence instantly he was throwing things saying he hates it here and wants to leave and...

My 15 y/o daughter is VERY introverted. She comes off as unfriendly, aloof, and is very quiet. She has a couple friends who are wonderful girls, but does not spend much time with them. She rarely smiles, and has trouble making small talk (let alone full conversations) with family members like...

Hiya .. parenting teens is hard ! .. worst part of being a parent .. I have a 26yr old who was he'll on legs .. I was on 1st name terms with the police .. she was running away and all sorts .. she did eventually change .. now is a hard working women who I'm proud of .. I couldn't go threw that...

I’m a 50 year old mother to one child, a 14 year old daughter. I love her and I’m glad she’s independent. She is individuating so hard! I am having a hard time letting go of the things that we used to do… like 4 years ago. Saying I love you when we say good night. She says that’s not her love...

EDIT: **Teenage son thinks random small talk is pointless between parent and kid.** The only thing he likes talking to me about is where am I going to have breakfast/lunch/dinner.I like to have small random talks about trivial things when we are driving.E.G. Today. "Why are you smiling and...

My son is 17 and is 6’2”. He’s tall and needs a lot of food to sustain. YET! The kid doesn’t take any responsibility for making sure he is fed, and I suffer from it. When he doesn’t eat, he’s an absolute pill and can be quite mean. When I’m able to identify this and feed him it can be a 10-15...

Update!: After 8 days, the theater teacher hasn’t responded to my email or returned my three phone calls so I finally went over his head and went to the principal. Who said “of course you can come! We’d love to have you!” So PHEW!!!! Thank you for all your words of support and encouragement! I...

It´s 2:00 in the morning here. I have a hospital stay tomorrow and needed to sleep. He is on a really bad schedule due to school holidays and kept busting in my room, banging on my door, putting things between the door and laughing. I calmly warned him once or twice he needed to stop or there...

I’m worried about our daughter’s eating habits. Given how sensitive an issue this can be with young girls, I want to be careful about whether, and how, we approach this. The issue is getting her to eat enough. At home we cook balanced, moderately sized and usually very tasty meals. She will...