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Summer is officially here and teens are all frantically looking for the perfect summer job. Facebook statuses abound with “Does anyone know who’s hiring?” and other references to the desperate need for a summer job. For most teens, the job hunt involves looking in the local mall, nearby restaurants, convenient stores, etc. However, many teens are [...]
Parent eSource contributor Shadra Bruce from I Got Mom Power Our two older boys have not given us the typical teen experiences most parents face. Derek didn’t drive, date, or have many interests beyond math, video games, and basketball. Kyle has Down syndrome. Kira, however, more than made up for her brothers’ lack of teen [...]
As parents, we need to understand the emerging technologies and trends so that we can teach our children to use them responsibly. With new social networks popping up all the time, it is often hard to stay on top of the newest sites. Today, the newest kid on the block is Foursquare and for parents, [...]
The digital age has brought on a variety of different outlets for video games that used to be limited to just old school Nintendo games hooked up to the television. Teens in the modern age can play games on their iPhones, Facebook, XBox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, PS3 and the list goes on. There is [...]
A lot of complaining has been circulating the social network this week with the final arrival of Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Most exams are more than three hours long and many teens can take up to three in a day. Naturally, a lot of teens have been complaining of complete exhaustion at the end of this process. [...]
It’s been a very exciting week for teens as well as adults all over the country with the announcement of the two of the biggest news stories of the year occurring this past week: the royal wedding between Catherine Middleton and Prince William as well as the long-awaited death of bin Laden. This is all [...]
As we approach our 100th blog post at Parent eSource, we thought we’d create collections of some of our best articles to date. Wether you’re a new reader or have been with us since the beginning, we hope you will enjoy and share the below list of our personal favorites. Are We Experiencing a Societal [...]
Easter is coming up and that means many teens are getting ready to break the Lent vows they’ve been holding strong to (mostly) for the past month. For a majority of teens this means reactivating their Facebooks, eating enough chocolate to make up for the break and being able to jam out to their iPods [...]