Raising Pre-Teens & Teens

I must admit, it made me pause a moment 😂

I’ve been with my husband for over 20 years. We have four kids and two of them were diagnosed with ADD. I need suggestions on how can I convince him that he needs to learn about it instead of leaving it all to me? One of our kids is 18 & graduated this year🙌🏽 Now, his dad tells me that our son should go straight to the military and save the college money for the youngest (who is not diagnosed). I am heart broken to hear him say this and asked him to never let my son know how he truly feels 😢

My daughter is soon to be twelve and her obsession with her phone is so real. It started during the pandemic and I haven’t found a way around it. She doesn’t have many friends due to her being homeschooled this year. She goes to class once a week and is doing very well except She’s always been to herself. She has one shitty friend from a previous relationship of mines. She plays on her phone from the time she wakes up until she passes out. She says playing online games makes her feel like she has friends. We spend time together but of course she’s getting to that age where I’m not cool anymore lol I get it. What are your rules for phone use? If you have a loner child how do you keep them active and not on their phone? I’ve been searching for months for mom groups with children her age but it seems in my area all the children are younger. TIA for replying to my post I appreciate you taking the time out to assist me in this matter. ✌🏾

I have a son who just turned 13. Lately he’s been getting into trouble at school and out of school. We’ve switched up his routine and the friends he can hang out with, but he still keeps getting into trouble. Unfortunately, we live in a very small town in Oregon where there are not a lot of extra curricular activities to get him involved in, especially this time of year. I have done everything I can think to do, conversations, punishments, etc. the only choice I had left was to send him to live with his dad for a wake up call. Has anyone else dealt with this with their teens, and how did you handle it?

I feel like an absolute failure as a mother, and I’m hoping this won’t give him some sort of abandonment issues!

I am trying so hard to not lose my temper, but EVERYTHING I say has a remark or a but I don’t want to in a whine. I just want her to eat breakfast and get ready for school. I just don’t understand because she knows the routine, she cried when I asked her to get her socks and shoes. I don’t want to get upset with her and send her to school in a bad mood. I get so frustrated that I have to walk away and do breathing exercises. I feel like I need to nip the back talk in the butt before it gets worse but idk how to approach it. I have tried changing her night routine to allow more sleep, I make the morning as easy as possible by laying out clothes and getting backpack ready the night before, she has breakfast already done and waiting for her. All she has to do is get dressed, eat, brush her teeth and hair and put on deodorant. I don’t know what else to do.