Questions tagged [teen]
Age specific questions from about 13 years to about 19 years. Younger: pre-teen. Older: adult-child.
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I'm a step father, I don't have any children of my own, how do I deal with a teen boy that acts extremely feminine?
I have been with my fiancee for a little over 4 years. I met her son when he was ten and he is now 14. In the beginning I felt in my personal opinion that he was a little bit of a "Momma's boy" but I ...
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How do I help a person i know grow up?
Someone I know who is 16 but can’t read or write properly and is failing in school. Appears to have difficulty making conversations. Exhibit child-like characteristics; cries when being yelled at or ...
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Is it cruel to deny laughing gas for a teen getting a tooth filled?
My 13 yr old daughter has a cavity. They plan on giving local anesthesia, with an option for laughing gas.
When I had teeth filled, I never recall getting laughing gas.
I'd like for her to learn ...
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depression is affecting my parenting, work and I'd like to move city
I'm a single parent, two kids 14 & 12. no family (I'm a single child orphan, from my late teens) to help with support. I get no help (financial or otherwise) from my former partner who was removed ...
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How can I get my teenager to go to school?
Teenage daughter refusing to go to school
Very similar situation! 15yr old, been going through this for a couple years. Hates idea of home schooled so says, that will make it much worse. She likes ...
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How to make my 15-year-old sister stop stealing money?
My younger sister is 15 years old. We grow up in a single parent family. She has the bad habit of stealing money, which began when she was very young and still continues.
We punished her - sometimes ...
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How to deal with a teenager who wants his parents to buy him everything his friends have?
How do I teach my son the value of money and to differentiate between a need and a want?
The problem I am facing is that he is 19 years old, not 5 years old. He is my youngest son and to be honest I ...
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What expenses should I pay for my 16-year-old daughter
I give my 16 year old daughter 1 dollar a day for keeping straight A's (90% or above in every class). If she drops to a B in one of her classes, no dollar until she brings it back up (I check via the ...
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How do I tell my 14 year old niece that her mom is kicking her out?
I'm a 30 year old guy, and I'm single, never had a real girlfriend to speak of. My sister's first born is in some trouble and she has decided that her daughter cannot live with her anymore (there's ...
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How to deal with over-inflated ego in teen
I am mentoring a 15 year old girl who is just now going in to 9th grade because of failing her last grade. Emotionally, she's fairly immature but starting to get into teenage girl things like makeup ...
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Do you have any experience with testosterone treatment to speed the onset of puberty?
My son turned 14 last fall, but has yet to start puberty. He's always been small for his age, but it's become more pronounced as his friends and classmates hit their growth spurts. His doctors have ...
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Our 19 year old son sleeps all day
My 19 year old step son lives at home, his father doesn't charge him rent or expect him to do much around the house. He doesn't go to college although all of his friends do and he could if he applied ...
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How to get my teenage son's enthusiasm back?
My son turned 13 today but, since he started secondary school (uk), 18 months ago, I have noticed a steady decline in his enthusiasm for...anything really, apart from playing computer games.
I am ...
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How do I tell my mom that I am not Christian?
I have actually recently found a label for my religion (druidism). I am 15 and I actually established my personal beliefs years ago. I feel like a disappointment to my parents already because I'm ...
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How can I live like a normal teenager with my super strict parents?
I am 16 and a junior in high school. I have an older sister who is 22 and live with both of my parents.
My parents are super strict compared to my friends' parents. They are very religious, which I ...
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Worried about really overweight teen girl [closed]
Beautiful girl 75 to 100 pounds over weight She is getting terrible deep stretch marks that she thinks no one notices It makes everyone extremely angry if anyone says anything. Please send ...
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Caught my 16-year-old with his vape
So, we heard through the grapevine my 16-year-old might be vaping. We don't approve but because we didn't want to divulge our source, let it go. Today, he walked through the door carrying it in his ...
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What to dow when my 13-year-old son still wants to hold my hand?
My 13-year-old son still wants to hold my hand. Holding his dad's hand has been drilled into him since he was able to walk as a safety thing and I assumed as he got older he would not want to anymore,...
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How to encourage a child to learn a distant language and culture?
I want to motivate a child of High school age to learn a new language from far away like Japanese and learn about other cultures and civilisations like - Zen and ancient Japanese culture, for example.
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How to help an early teen stop catastrophizing?
Yesterday, while I was still at work, I got a phone call from my 13 year old who had come home from school very stressed out because a teacher had told the entire class to improve presentations they ...
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My 15-year-old son is gay. How do I express my feelings about this?
Recently, my 15-year-old son has been acting very strange around the house, which isn't like him at all. Whenever we try to talk to him all we get back is "yes I'm fine" or "Go away", which really ...
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How do I express my feelings about my 15-year-old daughter's rude boyfriend?
My 15-year-old daughter always has her boyfriend around the house and I don't like the way he talks to her and my family, as the man of the house I would like to show that I am dominant and show that ...
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How do I handle a teen who doesn't care about dressing well?
I have an older teen boy who is handsome, smart, talented, fit -- everything you could hope for. The things is, he cares very little about clothing or looking his best. I'm not saying that he's ...
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How do I change my son's views, after he confessed to me that he rather be with prostitutes over having an actual girlfriend?
Last weekend, me and my 18-year-old son, who just recently enrolled in college, were having a conversation about dating and relationships. I would have never expected this from him in a million years, ...
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Can Prozac stunt a teenager's growth?
I have a close friend whose son turned 14 last October. He started on 10mg of Prozac in September 2013, gradually increased to 60mg in July 2014, where he has remained.
My friend keeps regular ...
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What to do when there's a conflict between my husband and my 14-year-old daughter?
My husband and I have been married for 8 years. We have 4 kids (2 are from previous relationships.) My daughter is the oldest at 14. Her biological dad isn't around, so my husband is the only father ...
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How to help a 14-year-old recognize reckless, destructive behavior as such and take it seriously after partially blinding our dog?
Our 14-year-old is a great kid. No joke. He causes very little issues for us.
Lately though, he has simply turned reckless in his behavior at times. I have attributed this change to the fact that he ...
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How to make my 18-year-old son get a job while in college?
My 18-year-old son has just entered college as a freshman. He has a workstudy as part of his scholarship and he has been hesitant following up on job leads.
Beyond baby sitting a few kids in our ...
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How do I get my daughter to take physical education (PE) classes?
My daughter is 14 years old. This seems to have been an issue since the beginning of this school year last September. She has constantly been refusing to do it, never taking her PE kit to school, and ...
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How to make my 16-year-old stop biting?
My 16- nearly 17-year-old son still bites. He isn’t neurotypical and he already goes to therapy. He does see what he is doing as normal for him alone.
He bites when anyone tries to hug him or give ...
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Should we force the issue of remaining in a zero-hour class when it's an "easy A"
My son is currently a high school sophomore who has been active in jazz bad since the sixth grade. He is in the "second tier" Jazz band and so goes to school an hour early three days per week. For him,...
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Relevant research to support father custody for children?
I have a friend who has children who are suffering an abusive situation with his ex-wife where she is physically, emotionally and verbally abusing their children. The situation is such that the ...
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Is it save for my 13-year-old daughter to bike to school alone? [duplicate]
My 13-year-old daughter wants to bike to school alone two times a week for band. It's about a 10 minute bike ride with crossing four roads. My husband is scared, but she is very mature and can bike ...
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Is it okay to encourage a transgender teen to consider genderqueer and transfeminine as alternatives to transgender?
My oldest child (17) told us that he has been struggling with finding his "presentation" and he "thinks" the answer is that she's a woman. Oldest is searching for the right female name and wants to ...
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As a teenager, my mom refuses to believe that I have anxiety/depression/ possibly ADHD. How can I help her understand that she is hurting me?
I am in 8th grade, and I am currently in four high school classes. I understand that these are significantly high stakes classes, and I genuinely try my best in each one of them. I am currently ...
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How to comfort my dad after telling him that I don't like to do anything with him?
I live with my dad and my grandmother. I don't live with my mother because several times she was caught doing drugs around my step sister. They split up when I was 6 months old.
My dad and I don't ...
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Topics for kids for moving in with girlfriend and kids [closed]
I'm somewhat of a shy guy, more precisely though I just don't know what to talk about. My problem is that I've moved in with my girlfriend, and she has two kids, a girl aged 12 and a boy aged 14, and ...
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Can my mother charge me money for not doing what she says?
When I don't do the washing up, or take out the trash, or whatever when mum asks, she charges me $10. I have a job, but am 17 living at home.
I am wondering if she is allowed to make up fines for ...
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How to deal with teen self-destructive behavior and complete lack of sense of responsibility?
A 18-year-old who is in the final year of high school is exhibiting certain patterns of behavior that seem very troubling. He is currently doing well in school, but I'm afraid that these patterns of ...
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How can I help my 14-year-old daughter be less angry?
My daughter is 14. She is usually very good and not hard to cope with, but sometimes she gets very angry.
For example, when I take away her phone, or her sisters use her belongings, or she can't do ...
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How to build a relationship with my 14-year-old son I was stopped from seeing and who now just looks for money from me?
My wife cheated on me right after our son was born and she decided to start a life with her lover. I tried to keep seeing and supporting my son, but she got pregnant a year after and asked me to stop ...
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How can I deal with my 12-year old son's rebellious behaviour?
My son is a very loving child and fun to be with usually....ever since he turned 12 he is suddenly the resident expert in the house on anything from how to drive a car to how become president. You ...
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How should we support 16 year old step sister who ran away from home
We're in Canada, if that's relevant.
My partner and I live by ourselves (late 20's), and my partner's 16 year old step-sister has recently fled an emotionally abusive home life (no physical abuse so ...
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How to make my 16-year-old sister stop biting me, when my parents won't get involved?
I'm 19 and have a 16-year-old sister. When I was laying on my bed minding my own business, my sister, who was still angry over something, came over and bit my hand. Like really bit my hand, which left ...
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How to make my 15-year-old daughter want to meet her 39-year-old sister?
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39 years ago, a good friend and I had sex and she got pregnant just before I went into the Navy. After three months, I came back from boot camp. I found out she also had slept with my best ...
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How to approach to parents only interested in success
I'm currently 17 years old, and I'm in my last year at the highschool(year 13). I live in germany with my parents.
Since I can remember, my parents made me want to have success. They taught me ...
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How do I discipline a 14-year-old girl without pushing her away?
I have a 14-year-old sister who my grandmother and I are gaining custody of. I don't doubt my grandmother's ability to take care of and discipline my sister the way she should be, but she and I are ...
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Should middle school students/high school students be able to choose their own bedtime? [duplicate]
Sleeping is important, but do students have the right to choose when they do so? Or should they let their parents decide the bedtime? Students above the age 12 need over 8 hours of sleep. It's ...
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How do I get my 17-year-old under control when I raise him alone and his behavior is unacceptable?
My husband passed away 9 years ago. My 17-year-old son is currently in high school. I also have a 25-year-old daughter, who doesn't live with us but visits us over the weekend. I'm the one who is ...
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How to help my 18-year-old who may be the victim of bullying?
My 18-year-old son is in high school and near graduating; like 40 days from now he will graduate. He is so smart and into business and science and gets top grades so I am thankful. He is so respectful ...