Its funny how often we hear the word ‘resilience’ being bandied around today.  Probably because it embraces so many of the things we want for ourselves and for our teens – to have ‘grit’, to be able to rise to the challenge, to overcome adversity, to have a growth mindset…the list goes on. It was […]

OK. This might just be the first of our posts to get readers all ‘fired up’ over the difference between parenting in the 80’s and modern day parenting. Yes, we are aware that not everybody enjoyed the ‘raised by wolves’ approach to child rearing as often exhibited by our own baby boomer parents. The emotionally […]

Here is an article written by Tina Plantamura, entitled 6 Things I Wish I Had Never Told My Children, which appeared in the Huffington Post in 2015. In the article the mother of a high school graduate reflects on the things we may have told our children in the early years, and wish we could […]

Teenhackz is dedicated to helping parents help their teens (and children) to develop into successful adults. We aim to be the ‘one stop shop’ for articles, tools, advice, and videos – anything we can find that is both interesting and insightful in parenting teens.  We want to do the internet surfing for you and bring […]