Managing Adolescent Volatility

Managing Adolescent Volatility

If we are parenting an adolescent, we realize that the teen years come upon us as a second storm after the relative reprieve of the school years. Teenagers can be as changeable as toddlers, but their outbursts are more frightening, and carry more potential for real...
Mothering’s Hidden Masterpiece

Mothering’s Hidden Masterpiece

In the car on the way to her music lesson, my fourteen-year-old daughter is surly, withdrawn, and irritable. When she is like this, I am careful not to fill the space with anxious chatter, and so these car rides are often silent. On a recent such drive, I searched out...