Minor children and drinking. In my opinion, oil and water...

The new Gwinnett County school year starts up next week. It’s weird; we used to plan our lives around the Gwinnett school calendar. Since our youngest graduated high school a couple of years ago, I don’t keep up with those dates any longer. I kind of miss it.



A friend of mine has a daughter who’s a junior this year, I believe. This friend and I were talking about preparations for the new school year (I miss that so much), and we inevitably got on the subject of trying to parent teenagers in a world that screams for their attention with some mighty scary things...(read full story)

The teen handbook

Just kidding. There’s not one. Sorry.
If you are the proud parent of one or more teenagers, you likely live in a state of perpetual balancing, tiptoeing, hugging, crying, advancing and retreating. My husband and I have raised four of them. Well, the youngest is 19 and a sophomore in college, so I guess you could say we’re pretty much done. They get some sense when they go off to college for some reason. I think it’s that, “Oh, I took all this stuff for granted for so long. I miss it!” thing...

To read the full story, go to my blog in the Gwinnett Daily Post