Parenting

“I feel like we’ve lost our way.” Karen said this to me six months ago, tears streaming down her face. Her family, once close, had devolved into people who lived in the same house but existed in separate worlds. Her teens retreated to screens. Her husband worked late. Dinners were silent or combative. Connection had […]

Two stories emerged from Nigeria’s digital space recently that should shake every parent to their core. A mother sexually abused her three-year-old daughter, who now carries an STD—a physical scar of unimaginable betrayal. Days later, news broke of a 33-year-old teacher who sexually abused a high school male student. These aren’t strangers lurking in shadows.

At 2 AM, Lisa got the call every parent dreads. Her 16-year-old son, Tyler, was at the hospital after a party where someone had spiked drinks with harder substances. He was physically okay, but terrified. “Why didn’t you tell me you were going to a party where there would be drinking?” Lisa asked him later.

But if I don’t control this, something terrible will happen.” Sarah, a mother of a 14-year-old, was explaining why she checked her daughter’s phone multiple times daily, read all her texts, and required her to share all social media passwords. “I’m keeping her safe,” she insisted. Her daughter, Emma, put it differently in our private

Michael, a father in one of my webinars, insisted, “My son doesn’t talk to me. He never tells me anything.” When I spoke to his 16-year-old son separately, he said, “I try to tell my dad things, but he’s always on his phone, or he immediately starts giving advice I didn’t ask for, or he

How to Talk About Anything with Your Teen (Yes, Even THAT) A mother named Jennifer once told me: “I know I should talk to my daughter about sex, about peer pressure, about her mental health. But every time I try, it goes sideways. So I just… don’t.” She’s not alone. Most parents avoid the conversations