Straight Talk For Teens By Teens

DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: I am 20, engaged to be married, and pregnant with our first child. The problem is I’m worried about raising children in today’s “raunch” culture. My fiancé’s nephews (ages 6 to 13) are constantly pointing at girls on the street, calling them fat or prostitutes, and…

Dear Straight Talk: After reading the recent columns on the choices teens face around drugs and sex, I decided to write.

The thing to realize is that by the time your teens are facing these decisions, it’s out of your hands as a parent. You have to set influences early in life.

I raised…

Dear Readers: Parenting is probably the only job that is guaranteed to be legendary. When your children have grown and when they gather with siblings or talk from the heart with friends, it will be always be about you, about their childhood, what it all meant and how it all fits together. As…