Weekly Real World Parents Newsletter
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/
Faith Like Mary
Our hope this week is to prod our kids to be inspired by—and to aspire after—Mary’s faith. We hold her up as a role model not because she was extraordinary (which she was) but because she was also a normal…
Read More:
http://www.realworldparents.com/starters/article/faith_like_mary/
2. Learn Their Lingo
Elf-Esteem = The feeling of being overworked, underappreciated and like you don’t exist to others during the holidays while in actuality the season’s success depends on you.
Wiper Beat = When the windshield wipers on your car sync up with the music on your car radio.
3. Links to Learn From
Survey: 15 percent of teens get sexual text messages
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/15/pew.sexting.survey/
Plasticizer may be tied to boys’ breast enlargement
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BD39920091214
Boy Sent Home For Drawing Of Crucifixion
http://wbztv.com/local/taunton.cross.drawing.2.1370369.html
4. A Little Encouragement…And Humor
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hillis