by Michele Borba | Dec 4, 2010 | Late Breaking News, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice about a risky teen behavior: cold and cough medicine abuse with potentially tragic consequences including addictions as well as death Risky dangers in your medicine cabinet When is the last time you checked your medicine cabinet for cold and cough...
by Michele Borba | Jul 25, 2010 | Empowering Girls, Late Breaking News, Parenting, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Parenting advice to raise girls from inside out and stop the outside wrinkle-free, large-breasted, pencil thin craze. Enough! Ask teen girls what is on their birthday wish list these days, and you may get a surprise answer: Botox! Yep, that appointed “youth wonder...
by Michele Borba | Jun 3, 2010 | Late Breaking News, School Success and Learning
Do you want to watch some of the best young minds of today face courage under enormous pressure? Then forget the Laker Games, Soccer’s Word Cup, Dancing with the Stars or even (I know, I know…) American Idol. It’s the National Spelling Bee and it...
by Michele Borba | May 24, 2010 | Depression and Suicide, Late Breaking News, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
Bullying. It’s rampant, cruel, and too much of the teen scene. But if you had even an ounce of doubt as to the extent of how vicious kids can be, this story should do it. A fourteen-year old boy was lured to a basement in a Concord, New Jersey home by teens. The...
by Michele Borba | Feb 22, 2010 | Late Breaking News, Trauma, Grief, Post-Traumatic Stress
I’m sure you’ve read those dismal reports about job insecurities: the U.S. unemployment rate is now at the highest level since 1993. We are stressed and worried and rightly so, but so too are our kids. I’ve received a number of email queries lately from...
by Michele Borba | Feb 9, 2010 | Character and Moral Intelligence, Late Breaking News
Earth to parents: Are you aware of the energy drink called, “blow?” If not you should. I know. Kids will be kids. But there are certain risky behaviors kids, tweens, and teens do that parents better wise up, get educated about and step in. Allowing kids to...