Before we bring in the new year, I’d like to share with you my favorite articles on parenting tweens and teens of 2018. I have had the privilege of sharing my words on three incredible parenting sites this year, and each article I have written has a piece of my mama heart. If you or someone you know is raising older kids- I’m sure these articles on parenting tweens and teens will be worth passing along.

Parenting my kids at these ages is a challenging, exciting, and exhausting journey and I’m so grateful I have the opportunity to share my experience with thousands of other parents who get it.

I have written several articles on parenting tweens and teens this year, so if you’d like to read more of them, you can click HERE to my page that includes posts I’ve published elsewhere. Scroll down to the following sites: Moms of Tweens and Teens, Your Teen for Parents, and Parenting Tweens and Teens. And while you are over at these sites, take a look around because they are all AMAZING. If you are parenting tweens or teens, you will love everything they publish.

In no particular order, here are my favorite articles on parenting tweens and teens! Simply click on the title to take you to the site!

For parents who have a child who tries and tries and tries and still feels like a failure:

Dear Teen Who Tries and Tries and Still Feels Like a Failure

For all of us parents who realize the influence we have on our kids as they get older:

The Scary Truth About Being Our Kids’ Role Models

For parents of middle schoolers and the value of them facing their fears and walking through to the other side:

Middle School Forces Your Child to Face Fear and Walk Through

to the Other Side

And here’s one for all the parents who have tweens or teens in competitive sports:

Behind Every Teen Athlete is an Exhausted Parent

If you have a tween or teen daughter, this one will hit your heart hard- share with your girl!

Am I Beautiful? What I Want My Daughter to Know about

Beauty

Here are some ways any parent can support and encourage their tween or teen!

Staying Connected to Your Teenager:

6 Easy Ways to Show You Care

And any parent of a tween or teen KNOWS how exhausting it can be to raise them.

Behind Every Teenager Is His or Her Exhausted Parents

Some inspirational advice for any tween or teen. (And really? Any of us, too.)

Life Advice For Teens: If Nothing Else, I Hope My Teen Knows

This

An important message for any parent to share with their tween or teen son:

Dear Teenage Son, This Is The Kind Of Man We Hope You Will

Become

And lastly, something every parent can appreciate, strive for and live out in all our lives.

Dear Kids, Let Me Teach You About The Power of Gratitude

Here’s to a New Year full of doing our best to raise amazing kids and taking good care of ourselves along the way…

BIG hugs to you and your family,