Advice for Parents of Teenagers

By Jane Parent
Sometimes the holidays are the perfect storm. Travel, stress, the pressure to have a “perfect” holiday, and all that family togetherness can lead to fights with your teenager. After a fight, how can you reboot your holiday?
“Everyone wants their holidays together to be perfect, and not to ruin your family time together,” says Dr. Kristen Wynns, a psychologist with Wynns Family Psychology in Raleigh, North Carolina....

Geek is cool—and now it’s also delicious, thanks to Rosanna Pansino, creator and host of The Nerdy Nummies, the Internet’s most popular baking show. These scrumptious, quirky cupcakes are from her brand-new The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook, which is chock...

 By K. L. Romo
“I’m pregnant.” The two words parents of teenage girls are petrified of hearing. The two words that make your mind travel in a thousand different directions, considering everything they will mean to your daughter’s life. To your lives.
For parents who haven’t been on the receiving end of those words before, they might just seem like the end of the world. Is your daughter’s life over before it’s even really begun? How will she finish high school? How will she go to college? How will...

Parent Review
By Erin Bishop Rosen
The Tortilla Curtain looks at the plight of Mexican immigrants who cross the border in search of the American dream. First stop, Southern California. Candido and his pregnant wife, America, end up living in a makeshift camp in Topanga Canyon just below...