Motivate Your Teen

Parenting

By Inspired Mother Staff

Lisa Jander, author of Dater's Ed http://www.datersed.com/ will host "Motivate Your Teen," a free event for parents and teens across the nation on May 21st at 7:00 pm EST.

During this LIVE tele-seminar, Lisa will be interviewing San Diego's "Motivate Your Teen" founder Justin Sachs, who has helped countless teens re-focus on their own personal path to success through proven motivational tools. He helps teenagers get better grades, eliminate procrastination, balance school, work, and fun, and prepare for their future. Justin also helps teens develop their leadership skills to become better prepared to receive college scholarships and increased college acceptance letters.

Visit the link below to register for this free event. You won't want to miss it!

http://motivateyourteen.eventbrite.com/

Never Say Never

Parenting

By Jennifer Redmond

It's a universal experience. Before you have children, you look at the most ill-behaved child and think that your offspring will never act in this manner. Your child will never throw a fit in the grocery-store checkout line, will never misbehave in church, will never defiantly blurt "NO" in front of your most proper relative, will never push his baby sister in anger or hit the neighbor's daughter. Your well-researched disciplinary methods will result in a respectful youngster who will never make you look like the worst mother ever.

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Dater's Ed, Second Gear: The road map

Parenting

By Lisa Jander

Is it possible to live on this planet and avoid relationships? More likely than missing potholes on my dirt road during winter? We all know that kids will develop many healthy "non-dating" relationships during school-age years that a parent can and should encourage: team sports, supportive friends, church groups, etc. These are vital to your child's well-being and self-esteem, but these aren't the relationships we fear. These aren't the ones that kids fret over and lose sleep over as they anguish in the night about whether Jordan noticed the bracelet they were wearing that dangled the new "Forever" charm, saved for with hard-earned lawn-mowing money.

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Dater's Ed, First Gear: Pave the way to healthy teen relationships

Parenting

By Lisa Jander

"Geez, Mom, I'm old enough to drive, why can't I date?" I was sitting at the kitchen table contemplating that question as I signed the Driver's Ed log for my son.

I was about to promise the world with my signature that my child had, in fact, driven these required hours with me in the car. Yes, I had spent a good number of those hours gripping the passenger door handle and biting my tongue. Occasionally I had blurted out some vital warning to save us from a fender-bender, like "Dude! Truck!"

Read more: Dater's Ed, First Gear: Pave the way to healthy teen relationships