Last week鈥檚 column about phone use drew some reactions. Here are a few of the emails/texts I received: Q. Thank you! I have a 14-year-old, and we fought about phone use on the regular. I read your column of March 5th and took the suggestion of creating a contract with our daughter. We sat ...
Q. The Olympics are over and I鈥檓 bored. I don鈥檛 know what to do with myself. It鈥檚 not really that the Olympics are over as much as my parents monitor my social media use on my phone and Chromebook. And I鈥檓 allowed to watch only the TV they approve 鈥� which is how I got so into the ...
Q. I saw your recent response to a parent and thought 鈥� I can ask my question too! I hope that鈥檚 okay. I鈥檓 the mom of a very inquisitive 5-year-old. When I say inquisitive, I mean there isn鈥檛 an hour of the day when I鈥檓 not asked something. I actually enjoy it. She keeps me on my ...
I decided to rerun this column from Feb. 13, 2020, for three reasons. It echoes sentiment I continue to hear from young people, the peer educator response was honest, and it is especially poignant to me since it ran about a month before the pandemic. Q. I hate Valentine鈥檚 Day. I once loved ...
Responses to my Jan. 29 column on snow days: Q. As a parent, I reacted to your column about remote snow days much like the teen who wrote to you. When I was a teen, we did have days off for snow, but they weren鈥檛 like today. My brother and I would wake up to listen to the radio and then go ...
Q. I noticed that most of your columns deal with problems teens bring to you. I thought it might be refreshing and bring you a smile to know I鈥檓 doing very well. I just finished my fifth college semester. I have a healthy relationship (you taught me to hold out for that), I get along with my ...
