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5 Apps to Ask Your Teen About

5 Apps to Ask Your Teen About

As adults, we need to help teenagers think critically about what they see online. Here are a few areas where you can ask questions and engage your teen in conversation!

The Accidental Ally

The Accidental Ally

It will take all of us to work towards better, anti-racist policies in discipline, justice, and mental health. We want to be allies, not bystanders.

We Got This: COVID-19

We Got This: COVID-19

Before Pearl Harbor, America wasn’t going to enter WWII. It didn’t affect us. Right now, every American individual, business and government is deciding on some level, “Am I in or am I out?” Pearl Harbor hurtled us toward an unknown, but it also created allies. America rallied. Men enlisted; women volunteered. Society was changed forever. And in many ways for the better.

Average Teenage Behavior or Warning Sign?

Average Teenage Behavior or Warning Sign?

How do you know what is normal teenage behavior or a red flag that should cause concern? Adolescents are constantly changing and it is difficult to know when to ask questions and how to recognize warning signs.

Good Enough

Good Enough

Too often we want our children and the students we work with to be the best. To reach the stars. To be the top. But sometimes, in reaching for the stars, we miss the small victories.