Your teenager is just entering high school. They decide they want to join the marching band. For whatever reason, they would be picking up a new instrument to do so (they don't play one, there are no open spots for whatever they wanted to play, or they wanted to join guard/majorettes but there are no spots ( Read more... )

If your teenage child was being bullied (physically as well as verbally) at school and the school officials were not doing enough to intervene, would you send them to school with some kind of defensive weapon like mace or a stun gun? If you don't think that's appropriate, what should the punishment be?

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Your child's High school football coach is caught on audio via cell phone yelling (and swearing) at his football players. One of the players posts it on youtube for the world to hear and all hell breaks loose ( Read more... )

Your child is in the marching band. Every year, all the band members gather in front of the band director's house at 6 am on a weekend and play their full routine. This year, people complained and the police got involved.Your child is very upset that their tradition has been disrupted. Do you side with your kids or the sleep deprived neighbors? If ( Read more... )

How important is it for a teen mother to be able to still "act like a teenager"? Should her parents make an effort to ensure she is still able to date, socialize out with her friends, and complete the usual teen rites of passage ( Read more... )

Congratulations! In about seven months' time, you'll be a grandparent! Because your teenage son will be a daddy! Because their GF is pregnant! And she swears it's his!

What will you do? Where will the baby live? What if you son doesn't want to be a daddy? What if he does?

Imagine your teenage child (16 or 17) has run away. They tell you they’re heading to Florida (or California or whatever the equivalent would be for you) for winter break and will come back before school starts again. It is unclear who they are with or precisely where they are now. They have a history of being pretty out of control, but this is the ( Read more... )

You have a younger sibling who is in grade 8 who has a horrible attitude and is constantly disrepectful. You no longer live at home, but you talk to your 5 siblings frequently. Your Father and Step-Mother have, as your other siblings have grown up after you, taken a decidedly hands-off approach to parenting and often have your 13yo sibling ( Read more... )

You are the parent of a teenage child, but you are at a difficult point in your life and for one reason or another, your sibling (the child's aunt/uncle) is fostering your child until you get back on your feet. You have told your child that if they ever feel they will become sexually active, they can come to you for birth control - and this moment ( Read more... )

Would you support your teen becoming a member of the Church of Body Modification? What if it resulted in them being suspended from school for violating the dress code?