Quik Tips Parent Newsletter
Quik Tips Parent Newsletter
Each week I’ll post a new Quik Tips Newsletter from our friends at Youth Specialties. Enjoy!Contents
- Tools for Parenting Teens
- Learn Their Lingo
- Links to Learn From
- A Little Encouragement…And Humor
1. Tools for Parenting Teens
From http://www.realworldparents.com/starters/
Redefining Success
What are you some of our deepest hopes for our children? How do we define “success” for them? Are we rooting for them to gain financial security, career satisfaction, and universal respect and devotion from their peers—or to become success…
Read More:
http://www.realworldparents.com/starters/article/redefining_success1/
Featured Resource: Boundaries with Teens
In this exciting new book, Dr. Townsend gives important keys for establishing healthy boundaries—the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for teens and the adults in their lives. The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.http://www.realworldparents.com/store/item/boundaries_with_teens/
2. Learn Their Lingo
Last Texter = That friend that always sends you a meaningless text after the obvious end of a text conversation, just to get the last text.
KPC = Text shorthand meaning “keep parents clueless.”
3. Links to Learn From
Up Close & Personal with Lisa T. Bergren
http://www.christianitytoday.com/momsense/2009/sepoct/upcloseandpersonal-lisatbergren.html
Study Reveals More Details About The iPhone Mom
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/study-reveals-more-details-about-behavior-of-the-iphone-mom/
“Say Aah” …and, “What’s in Your iPod?”
http://www.thesource4ym.com/youthculturewindow/article.asp?id=99
4. A Little Encouragement…And Humor
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
- Thomas Paine