Double Take

Double Take: Parenting strategies for siblings can’t be all-inclusive
February 9, 2010
As I get closer to leaving for college, I start to think about what it will be like for my little sister in a few months.
Double Take: Teens, parents need early talk on college planning
February 2, 2010
College choices. Where to go? In or out of state? JUCO or four-year? Private or public? Lay out a year or head to campus in the fall? What about tech schools, beauty schools, etc.?
Double Take: Privacy issues or not, children still need parenting on the Internet
January 26, 2010
Dear Dr. Wes & Samantha: I have a 10-year-old daughter, and I feel like if she is given no privacy and no trust she will move heaven and earth to break every rule I give her. But I don’t want her getting in trouble online. She has Facebook and MySpace accounts and e-mail and is happy to tell me the passwords. However, where do you draw the line?
Double Take: Inappropriate situation calls for further consequences
January 12, 2010
I read your column last year on teaching kids not to get into trouble with their sexual behavior. Unfortunately that’s what we’re facing right now.
Double Take: A few more New Year’s resolutions for parents and for teens
January 5, 2010
I know we’re five days into 2010, but it’s never too late to drop a few more New Year’s resolutions on our readers.
Double Take: Breakups — Suggestions on how to make the split for good
December 29, 2009
My relationship with my boyfriend isn’t going very well. We fight all the time, and both of us have found ourselves talking to other people, but somehow we end up back together.
Double Take: Girls need to reclaim assertiveness in classroom
December 22, 2009
This week my side of the column is a letter to my female peers and myself.
Double Take: College freshman plans separate living arrangement over break
December 15, 2009
I’m a freshman in college. I can’t exactly live under my mother’s rules. I am planning on coming in town this holiday.
Double Take: Parents’ past mistakes not as important as present conduct
December 8, 2009
My husband and I have a new baby and are discussing certain parenting do’s and don’ts…
Double Take: Parents have right, responsibility to check Facebook accounts
December 1, 2009
Is it OK to read my daughter’s text messages without her knowledge? Do parents have the right to ask for access to Facebook accounts?
Double Take: Parent considers home drug testing
November 24, 2009
As a divorced parent of a high school student, I need your ideas on how much do I “chalk up” to being a teenager and when to step in and be the parent..
Double Take: Teen wants to delay plans for college
November 17, 2009
Dear Dr. Wes and Samantha: I am frustrated with my son. Now is the time to be submitting his college applications, and he is telling me now that he wants to lay out a year…
Double Take: ‘Secret’ couple need to go public
November 10, 2009
What should you do if you and your boyfriend break up and both of you want to get back together, but you don’t really do it?
Double Take: Don’t pry about friends’ grades
November 3, 2009
Teachers use a wide variety of threats to make their students be quiet, but nothing is as effective as the tense silence they create when they are about to hand tests back.
Double Take: Teens unfamiliar with laws could earn sex offender status
October 27, 2009
“Sex offender” — one of the five or six worst terms you could possibly hear applied to your child.

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