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How to Prepare Your Athlete to Safely Resume Sports

June 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Q: [Adolescents and teens] How should I prepare my athlete for returning to sports? After spending time away from organized activities, there will be an understood eagerness to quickly return to previous levels of practice and competition. That being said, it is best to protect young athletes and performers by realizing that starting with too […]

Filed Under: Ask the Experts, Fitness & Recreation, Teens & Tweens Tagged With: sports

11-year-old Sells Candy to Raise Money for Black Lives Matter

June 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

Local Hero Nathan Contreras making candy to support the Black Lives Matter movement

In the midst of unrest and uncertainty, there’s also hope and inspiration. Nathan Contreras got a powerful lesson about racism in third grade. And it wasn’t from a book. One day, when he tried to defend a couple of kids new to his school and new to the country, another kid tried to strangle him.  […]

Filed Under: Community, Local Heroes, Teens & Tweens

Back-to-School Fashion at the Outlets of San Clemente

August 1, 2018 Leave a Comment

Fashion Check Slideshow

A day at Outlets at San Clemente for these kids (left to right)—Gavin Acacio, Kailyn Hukriede, Gianna Acacio, William Hukriede, Kaleb Fisher—meant larger-than-life games, a visit to the Ruby’s Diner ice cream shop and back-to-school shopping with Pacific breezes. Practical meets personal, when you make this year’s back-to-school shopping a fun collaboration with your student. […]

Filed Under: Beauty & Fashion, Early Childhood, Special Issues, Teens & Tweens

Follow the Leader

January 31, 2017 Leave a Comment

Follow the Leader Slideshow

T(w)een Camps and Afterschool Organizations Camps and extracurriculars often focus on teaching a skill or honing a talent. These OC opportunities teach our tweens and teens something even more important, how to become a leader Stopping Bullies with a Roar Giving back. It is the opposite of what we think of when “teen” is mentioned. […]

Filed Under: Camps, Teens & Tweens

Tween Hygiene

August 2, 2016 Leave a Comment

Tween Hygiene Slideshow

The kids are getting older and their hygiene needs are growing with them. Here are some products that help bring balance to the wildly hormonal years of tween-dom. Dove Go Fresh Cool Essentials Antiperspirant We love the body-image message from Dove, and you’ll love the 48-hour formula that covers your kid even when she forgets […]

Filed Under: Health, Teens & Tweens

CIT, a Summer Solution for Tweens and Teens

March 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

CIT Slideshow

Is your tween insisting she’s too old to attend camp this summer? If your child isn’t old enough to get a summer job and just hanging around for three months is off the table, look into your local Counselor-in-Training (CIT) programs. These programs are for young teens serious about assuming the responsibility and effort it […]

Filed Under: Teens & Tweens

De’Bunking Camp Concerns

February 4, 2016 Leave a Comment

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Q: [School-Aged] My middle-schooler is getting ready to go to camp for the first time. It seems like friendships at this age are in flux, to put it mildly. Is it better to lock her into her time away with friends who might be frenemies by then, or encourage her to make new friends and […]

Filed Under: Ask the Experts, Camps, Teens & Tweens

Tween Dating Limits

February 4, 2016 Leave a Comment

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Q: [Tween] “My daughter just got her first ‘boyfriend’ and he is all she can talk about. They are only 8th graders so they don’t actually ‘go’ anywhere, just publicly admit to the crush. I remember being swept up at that age, but with so much access via social media and cell phones, it seems […]

Filed Under: Ask the Experts, Teens & Tweens

10 Things a Parent Can Do to Prevent Addiction

September 30, 2015 Leave a Comment

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1. Be supportive. This is especially true before a child has an addiction problem. Try to support everything positive in your child’s life, such as good grades, increasing grades, excelling at a sport or hobby, helping out a friend or relative, anything positive that he or she does. This reinforces the concept of positive behaviors […]

Filed Under: Family Wellness, Teens & Tweens

Skylar Rising

December 30, 2014 28 Comments

With mom, Kara, as her guide, the talented 12-year-old is poised for takeoff, but with her feet firmly on the ground. The bubbly twelve-year-old answered her door for our cover shoot, barefoot in jeans and a plaid flannel shirt, struggling to contain the impossibly cute fluffy dog wiggling in her arms. “Come in! Thank you […]

Filed Under: People, Teens & Tweens Tagged With: celebrities

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