Tag: Teens

"When you become a mom, the years all of a sudden start flying by. At lightspeed. You try hard to slow down time, but no matter how hard you try, you can’t figure out the magic potion to freeze time."

A clinical psychologist talks about the warning signs of suicide in teens, and how to help them cope with today's pressures.

How do we make the holiday season special for our older kids when the magic and wonder of the younger years is gone? Well, I asked this exact question on Facebook recently and received some pretty amazing responses! So I decided to put them all together in one spot and share them with you here.

"Our children will most likely never know the tears we cried behind closed doors, or the prayers we begged for in the middle of the night. Until they have children of their own, they won’t understand that our hearts break when theirs break, maybe even harder than their own."

We have this tension of clinging tightly to the last moment and proudly letting go and still hoping they make wise choices.

"Our kids are smart. They picked up on the message we unwittingly taught."

"We knew teens were sexting, but we didn’t know how many."

'A small group of students took a big risk. They decided to start a raw and powerful dialogue about suicide. By putting themselves in front of 1,800 classmates and saying...look, I have a story, too. I have pain. I have been hurt, but there are not '13 reasons why' to give up."