peer pressure

Tweens, Teens & College

Caught red-handed: Your teen's a thief

When your teenager has been caught stealing, is it simply rebellious behavior or a cry for help? Before you risk pushing your...

Tweens, Teens & College

Nurturing an edgy teen

If you have a child who doesn’t fit in, don’t focus on the negative aspects of being different. Embrace your child’s unique...

Tweens, Teens & College

How to have a back-to-school drug talk with your child

Before your teen returns to school in the fall, sit down for a serious talk about drug abuse. Learn how to do your research ahead of...

Tweens, Teens & College

Does ballet beget bulimics?

More than ever before, the focus in today’s pop culture is on body image. Who’s the skinniest? Who’s the heaviest? Who has the most...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Parenting Guru: Can girls dodge the drama years?

Haley Kilpatrick was the new girl in middle school and an easy target for mean girls. She ate lunch alone in the girls’ bathroom to...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Kids and sexting

In 2010, a Brooklyn school suspended 32 students for sexting (sending sexually explicit, nude or semi-nude photos by cell phone)....

Mom & Dad

How to handle parenting peer pressure

It starts the second you tell the world you’re pregnant: the avalanche of well-meaning advice. For moms wading through the piles of...

Child Development & Health

Teaching children to embrace their differences

Everyone feels different at some point in her life. Rather than focusing on differences in a negative way, parents can teach their...

Tweens, Teens & College

5 Ways to help your teen resist negative peer pressure

The teen years are no picnic -- for your child or for you as a parent. There are hormones, school pressure and mood swings -- and...

Child Development & Health

Using peer pressure to your parenting advantage

You likely remember your parents warning you about the dangers of peer pressure. “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do...

School Age Kids

How to recognize when peer influence turns to pressure

As much as we talk about helping kids to resist “peer pressure,” it exists. Even for the most self-assured, independent-thinking...

Monday Mom Challenge

Monday Mom challenge: Don’t give in to peer pressure

How many times have you had a talk with your child about peer pressure and social dynamics? Think for yourself, you say. Don’t allow...

Tweens, Teens & College

Prom peer pressure

As if being a high schooler isn’t tough enough, the pressures of prom can weigh heavily on your teen. Here are some tips on how to...

Teen Behavior

Helping your teen make positive friendships

Adolescents and teens may look more and more like adults, but their judgment and decision making is decidedly not adult. This goes...

Teen Behavior

Helping teens combat peer pressure

What is the best way to help your teen combat peer pressure? If you had a nickle for every time your tween told you that "everyone...