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Blogger and Father Andrew Kensley discusses the difficult task of being consistent, mindful, and realistic when laying out consequences with kids: http://thecoloradowriter.blogspot.com/2012/03/consistency-and-consequences.html

Some tips on how to connect and communicate with your kids and teens: http://lakeforest.suntimes.com/opinions/11075366-598/parents-must-be-active-listeners-with-children.html http://www.ourmidland.com/accent/article_c3b657f0-ba88-56ed-a7d6-18f604f6b4f7.html http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/apr/02/focusing-on-positive-communication/ http://blog.crchealth.com/2012/04/06/parents-keep-those-lines-of-communication-open/

Timothy D. Wilson, a social psychologist out of the University of Virginia author of Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change, discussing the mertis of “story editing” to facilitate changing behavior: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/03/revising.aspx

Imagine your teen is 8 years old. Would you give her advanced calculus to work on? And if you did, would you yell at her if she didn’t know how to do it? Probably not. The problem is that society treats emotional development very differently than academic development, although there are many similarities.[i] We want […]

How texting has become part of teen social culture: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-01/text-a-little-less-and-think-a-little-more-carter http://jjie.org/for-growing-number-of-teens-cell-phones-arent-for-talking-study-says/81544 http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2012/0410/Teen-text-messaging-up-but-do-they-yack-more-than-parents-did On the effect of social media on teens: http://www.scoop.it/t/the-affect-of-social-networking-on-teenage-communication http://www.newpaltzx.com/2012/03/14/our-kids-and-the-internet/ On the benefits of playing video games: http://blogs.wsj.com/wsjam/2012/03/09/why-parents-should-embrace-videogames/ And thoughts on parenting teens with new tech: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/mar/26/double-take-parents-must-teach-kids-technology-eth/ http://www.kcur.org/post/parents-teens-technology http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120406/Steps-to-reduce-risk-of-social-media-sites-among-teenagers.aspx http://bethel.patch.com/articles/teens-react-as-technology-effects-family-dynamics An opinion on when to let kids have their own cell phone, and […]