Real Parenting Questions and Answers for Parents of Teens

Parents want to know if their teens should see the movie because of the violence it portrays. Some feel it is too violent to watch and that books weren't 'in your face' in a way that the movies is. Advice given by parents of teens in our parenting community.

A parent from our forum asks: How old should your daughter be before she should/could wear make-up? Mine is starting but it's light. What's a good age?

A parenting seeking advice: "I have an eleven year old boy. I recently in the heat of frustration, called him fat..... I know, the worst thing I could say... read more.

"I'm so confused one day a thought popped into my head after the WH teacher emailed all of the parents about making sure our kids studied more. I thought WTH? Why do *I* have to make sure a 10th grader studies, does her work? Shouldn't she learn natural consequences? I won't be there when she's away at college to make her study." Advice given by parents in our community on the post.

Should dads and teen daughters travel together and share the same hotel rooms? This dad asks this question to our parenting community.

Is fourteen too young to get this piercing? Our community of parents weight in on this parenting question and let this mom know what they think.

A parent has a son who is acting like a brat and she asks our community of parents what she should do.

A parent questions whether his daughter should change schools or not after sending naked pictures over her cell phone to her boyfriend. He receives good advice and reasonable answers from our community of parents.

Daughter is entering college but older boyfriend is a bit of a snag. Mom asks what she can do and other questions to our parenting community.

These parents are having a hard time accepting their son's girlfriend and ask some parenting questions to the community.

Parents are divorcing and dad has a girlfriend. The teens aren't too happy about that. Mom has questions for the community on how to help her teens through this difficult time.

Young adult child is dating someone who already has a child. The parent has questions for other parents who have been in a similar situation.

A mom is concerned about her teen being harassed by teachers and poses her questions to the community of parents here.

When you allow your teen to date an older teen, you will soon find your teen is dating a young adult. That is what the questions this parent had were all about.

A mom has a parenting question about her young teen wanting to date an older teen boy. She asks the parenting community for advice.

A dad asks this parenting question out of concern for his son, who is showing signs of depression. Good advice is given by our community of parents.

A mom is wondering if she can use a teen's iPod for discipline purposes even though her daughter paid for it with her own money.

A dad asks this parenting question: Should this family move their high school junior to a new town before he graduates. Good advice is given by our community of parents.

Parents everywhere wonder if Facebook and other social networking sites are safe for their teens to use. Our parenting community weighs in with their opinion about Facebook specifically with this parent's questions.

While some of our community go off topic and comment on the legal issues of marijuana, there is a lot of good advice given for parents of teens with this parents question.

This single mom is unsure how to proceed so she asks our parenting community questions about keeping her teen son from surfing porn sites.

This parenting question lead to another: Should mom's of adult sons check their laptops for porn? Our parenting community weighted in on both issues.

A mom asks a parenting question on what she can do about her daughter who continues to run away. She receives some good advice from our parenting community.

This mom needed the parenting community's help to realize that we can't be just a friend to our teens, as she was posting questions on help with discipline.