Carmen asked:


I’m 16 and have a really hard time being away from my Mum or even out of my house. I dont go to school anymore because I hate leaving and get really nervous and anxious. Whenever I go out shopping if the place gets really clustered I go straight home. I have also noticed I cant be away from my Mum. I dont have a social life anymore so i stay home on weekends to be with her and I even have troubles sleeping by myself coz I’m scared she’ll stop breathing in her sleep or something crazy. I get extremelly stressed out when she goes out with friends or to the shops coz I’m scared something will happen to her and I’ll be alone. I’m pretty sure I might have seperation anxiety. How is this treated and can teenagers even get it? I thought only young children suffered? I dont know if its relevent but I was also sexually abused during my childhood and I only live with my mother and not my father.

jenniferreneehodges asked:

not even worth watching. Unless you can’t sleep in the middle of the night and there are no infomercials…..

JJMom asked:


and meet yourself when you were 16, what parental advice would you give your 16 year old self? I would have told my 16 year old self that *** does not make you cool or sophisticated, neither do drugs, you will need Algebra, bad boys are not worth the heartache, and big hair is going to be such a fashion faux pas.
Julie, I don’t have a lot of spare time, just can’t sleep because I had coffee too late in the afternoon trying to keep up with my kids. It’s good your are evaluating your life at a young age.

Sherry: the 80s so totally rocked!

celery_is_the_enemy asked:


Ok, I might be worrying a little early (my kids are 3 and 5 yrs old) but I wonder how to parent kids when they get older

Because I know eventually the next step will be my older (and maybe younger too) kid will ask to sleep over at another kid’s house & after that who knows and the parenting tactics might fail with me because all of a sudden your kids are grown up (or think they are) and you can’t just hug them when they get a booboo or try to offer them your parental advice because they might think they’re old enough to be above it.

Anyways how do you think your parenting will change when your kids get older, or now that they actually *are* older? I am afraid that someday my kids will be too old to put them in timeout as a punishment for misbehaving and too old for me to just hug them and tell them an “ouchy” will go away.

So what do you do when your kids get older as far as parenting? I know we can’t stop time, but how does your parenting change as far as rules and such?

Kels asked:


I’m a teenager and my parents yell at me when I sleep in on the weekends or on days when I don’t have school. I’ve heard that sleeping is good for teens, is that really true?

John S asked:


I have a male-female pair of twins that are almost 13. My wife has been religios about watching them in the pool when they have friends over and we’re considering not allowing them to have friends sleep over on the same night. I guess my question would be: What measures should we take now that our kids are becoming teenagers, and are we doing the right thing?

Benson asked:


My kids are still little and sleep soundly, but seriously, what am I going to do when my kids are older and like to stay up later?