Nicole asked:


My 17 yr old son has been lying to me alot (about stuff that really doesn’t matter and somethings that do). He has been sneaking out late at night, sometimes on school nights. I’ve taken the car and his cell phone away. But tonight I went in to check at 1am and he wasn’t in his room. He had just gotten his cell phone back after being punished. I called him and told him to get back home. He returned in about 20 minutes. He said he was at a friends house in the neighborhood, but I do not believe him. Any ideas, his Dad doesn’t take this seriously, says boys will be boys and he is 17. I don’t want him screwing up his senior year. If he does well this year, he should be able to get into a good college. In the fall of last year he got caught at school with a joint and was put on informal probation. If he test clean and doesn’t get into any trouble, all charges will be dropped and go away like nothing happened. How can I keep him from screwing up his life? Am I overreacting?

English teacher from Germany asked:


Hello!

I’m an English teacher in Germany and want to introduce my 8th graders to country music next week.

I am looking for a good song that deals with a teenager-parent conflict.

The only one I have is from Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show; it is called Sylvia’s mother. But I would sooo love to play a better one for my class.

We are currently talking about the Midwest and Nebraska in particular.

Looking forward to real expert answers! Thanks in advance.

melissa asked:


I have twin 16 year old boys and sometimes they give me a look, or my husband will say, time for us to leave….and I think, what did I do?
Do your parents embarrass you and how?

ian asked:


The vices, the bad behavior of the teenagers that affect the relationship to their families. The problems of the teenagers especially to their parents. the common attitudes that change their behavior.

Sarah O asked:


There are some teenagers who are very good teenagers. Their parents don’t believe that they are good teenagers. The teenagers do care and love their parents, but the parents don’t understand. Eventually when teenagers graduate from college, parents look back to how their kids were when they were teenagers, they finally realized that their kids are very good kids and they were very blessed to have teenagers like their kids. The problem was that the parents didn’t realize it. Why aren’t parents grateful for what they have sometimes? Why does it take so long for parents to understand that their kids were great kids all along?

crybaby asked:


13 and 14 year old teenagers don’t talk to their parents as much they don’t when they are 10 or 11. Teenagers are that way not because they are bad or rude. It is because teenagers need space to themselves to learn and realize what kind of person they really are and who are are. Also, they are growing up and are learning to be more independent than before. That is how they learn to be an adult from being a child. There is nothing wrong with that. Why do parents get upset and think that they have bad teenagers??

Summerly, loving life asked:


What do you think is wrong with the way this society is bringing up our children’s children.

Do you believe it is advertising that are bulling parents on what comes into their homes violence ****** innuendos and all the ugliness that comes into the homes via advertising of things that our kids were not exposed too. What would you do to fix the things that are so wrong today?
Some parents even say that today the commercials that come into their homes are just as bad with so many innuendos….Parents today have it so hard they are not allowed to parent the way we did or the way our parents did…….I feel for today’s parents and the control that was taken away from them and what is being thrown right into their homes, I think if they had control of what would come into their homes with then having the only choice of not turning on the TV that they would do so.

bingo asked:


do you believe in ******** if the child deserves it? such as hitting another sibling, or yourself. back talking, foul language, ect?

LadyArwyn asked:


All of the magazines (Parenting Magazine, etc) seem to be for parents are focused on children under the age of 5 with some information about ages to 10, but when the kids hit puberty and teen years, parents certainly aren’t “in the clear.” If anything, parents need more information.

I’d love to see a magazine for parents of teenagers talking about how to deal with everything from teen angst to the latest studies on how to keep teens off of drugs to teen fashions and what parents need to know about video games and music that’s popular among teenagers.

Or is there one out there already that I have somehow missed?

5cent Frog asked:


You kids are obsessed with ***. You just can’t wait to get the herpes, to have a guy like you because your easy, and to feel like your popular when you really aren’t because people are talking bad about you. Oral *** is sex, it isn’t just something fun you do for all the guys at the 8th grade dance. Don’t do it, make a guy work for it. Value yourself and your body. There, that should answer all of your questions.
Children should learn about safe *** either from their parents (which rarely happens or from the schools.) Not by posting questions about how to give their boyfriends better BJs in the Yahoo Answer catagory that is designed for parents of teenagers. Maybe yahoo should make a catagory for teenagers to ask questions about how to have better ***. I am educated, I’m a teacher and I see these girls using their bodies trying to make themselves popular. It’s gross.