by Shannon Popkin | Mar 6, 2012 | Media, Roles, Teens
There’s this store in the mall that is so dark, I feel like I should really get a spelunking hat before I go in again. I have the hardest time reading the price tags. The regular prices are stamped in grayish ink, but when you get to the clearance section (which...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 19, 2011 | Kids' Perspective, Mistakes, Parenting, Teens
In eighth grade Language Arts, Lindsay was asked to write about her Michigan Hero. I’ll let her surprise you…When someone asks me who my Michigan Hero is I think of an experience I had in fourth grade….In Math class, I was bent over, squinting at my...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 10, 2011 | Differences, Parenting, Teens
Last time, I posted about feeling rather ‘Ugly Duckling-ish’, as a parent. When my kids were little, I honestly didn’t worry all that much about being different from other parents. I figured I was doing what was best for my child, and trying to...
by Shannon Popkin | Jun 14, 2011 | Teens
It’s officially the second day of summer and we’ve already made an emergency run to the library. Does anyone else have a book worm at their house? Mine is a tween, which makes book finding that much more difficult. Twilight? Pretties and Uglies?...
by Shannon Popkin | Jun 14, 2011 | Teens
If you have a girl who loves books the way mine does, these middle school years can be tricky. I don’t want to let her loose amidst the blood sucking, twisted romance novels that line the shelves of the library’s teen section. And I don’t have the...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 29, 2011 | Parenting, Teens
Some responses to my last post (which detailed my daughter’s failed attempt at talking us into a texting plan) made me want to hear more from an actual twelve year old. What’s it like out there, walking the halls of your middle school with no text message...