After all the graduation parties are over, you find yourself left with just an empty house. The loss feels so deep. And though your friends may all seem fine, you feel like your world has shaken. When a teen leaves home for college or for the military, a season in a mom’s life has ended. And it is normal to feel sad. Here is a mom’s guide to coping with empty nest syndrome to help you through those first hard weeks. [Read more…]
Bullet Journal Ideas for Teenagers
Bullet Journal Ideas for Teenagers: Fun and Creative Spreads to Inspire
Back to School season is the perfect time to get more organized. And one of the perfect tools to give your teen is teaching them how to track and plan out their school week. The more organized and on top of their school tasks they are, the more successful at school they will feel. Each teenager is a little different in how they want to organize and plan out their week. But bullet journaling is a perfect way to test out using a physical planner to help your high schooler be more organized this year. Here are some bullet journal ideas for teenagers to get the creative juices flowing! [Read more…]
Outdoor Job for Teenagers: Summer Farmhand Job Survival Tips!
With the surge in popularity of homesteading and TV shows like Yellowstone, cattle farming and ranching have experienced a renewed interest. Does your teenagers love the idea of working outside, as a farm or ranch hand? A great outdoor job for teenager is working as a farmhand! Whatever your teenager’s future plans, a farmhand job will help your teen gain valuable work experience and begin to learn the ins and outs of working on a farm. We have hired a fair amount of farm help, trained three of our own kids, and I’ve (almost) completed my transformation from city girl to farm girl. So there are definitely things you need to know to stay safe and be a successful farmhand. Here are 15 tips to survive your outdoor job as a teenager and thrive as a summer farmhand. [Read more…]
Learning By Doing: Examples of Experiential Learning for Teenagers
Are your teens disengaged? Frustrated with school? Apathetic about learning? Let’s talk about experiential learning as a tool for bringing a passion for learning and self-sufficiency back into the lives of your teens. Check out how learning by doing can make a difference for your family with these examples of experiential learning for teenagers!
Sara Segar is our guest writer this week. Sara is a former high school teacher with ten years of classroom experience. Currently, she writes at Experiential Learning Depot. And she will be sharing about how Experiential Learning can help your teen become more engaged at school! [Read more…]
How Major Choice is Helping Teenagers Choose A Career Path
Why do we act like some things in life, such as career planning for our teens, is such a mystery? That we just have to blindly hope that our teen will somehow figure it out on their own. With the cost of college continuing to rise, every year, we can’t afford to allow career planning to remain obscured. Yes, your teen may magically discover what they are called to do with their life while at college. Or they may just spend thousands of dollars to end up with a oh so useful history degree (gulp). Thankfully, there is support and help, for your teen, with career planning! Major Choice is cutting through the misconceptions and carving a clear path to helping teenagers choose a career path. [Read more…]
10 Fun Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your Teenager
Valentine’s Day was a pretty big day during my teenage years, as I went to an all girl high school. Some of the girls would receive big bouquets of flowers on Valentine’s Day, delivered right to the school. If you were single, like me, you felt a bit lonely! My dad even tried to send me flowers one year, only to have them NOT come on Valentine’s Day but instead, awkwardly come the next day! Thanks for trying, Dad. So while I have struggled through my fair share of sad Valentine’s Day, I have turned the tables on Valentine’s Day making it a FUN day for all my friends and family that I love. So here are 10 fun ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your teenager that will leave them with lots of positive memories. [Read more…]
When Your Lonely Teenager Has No Friends
My heart broke when I heard what my teen had to say. When one of my teens was around middle school age, they came to me and told me how left out they felt among their peers. As things do in junior high, the friend groups had shifted. It can be startling as a parent, when everything in the friend arena shifts for your tween and early teen, in junior high. Personally, I felt caught off guard by the middle school age transitions. Suddenly, your tween, that seemed to have friends before can be left alone as cliques form. How do you help your lonely teenager with no friends form connections with those around them and make friends when it doesn’t come easily? [Read more…]
Trending Gifts for Teen Girls
Here are gifts that are too cute not to buy for your favorite teen girl! Most of these holiday gifts I can’t claim to have come up with on my own. My teen daughter have used or bought most of these Christmas gift ideas. You have to check out the spa make up headband!! Adorable! So scroll on down for trending gift ideas for teen girls.
Best Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas for Teen Girls
You will find tons of fabulous gift ideas for your tweens and teenage girls. From Christmas gifts to small stocking stuffers! Just click on the picture or link below to start looking for ideas. [Read more…]
Trending Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas for Teenagers 2022
It’s that time of year again! Whether you are finally getting around to fulfilling that lifelong promise to yourself to start Christmas shopping early or you’re doing what most of do and last minute holiday shopping, I’ve got plenty of Christmas and holiday gift ideas for teenagers for YOU!
Trending Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas for Teenagers
You will find tons of fabulous gift ideas for your tweens and teenagers from girls to boys. And from Christmas gifts to small stocking stuffers! Just click on the picture or link below to start looking for ideas. [Read more…]
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