As kids approach puberty, parents should talk about sex and set up the right kinds of guidelines for social interaction.

Last year, kids were willing to negotiate with their parents, agreeing to less clothing and outright shunning some things to get what they wanted in an electronic item.

If your parents pandered to your every need, chances are you'll do the same with your kids. Dare to break the pattern.

Kids actually experience more conflicts with close friends than with acquaintances. At first that might seem weird, but if you think about it, you can get over what an acquaintance says, but what a friend says and does really matters. And because you are friends, you are motivated to work it through.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.