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Explore practical insights on single parenting, screen time problems, managing behavior, and communication with your tween or teen.

How Single Parents Can Hold the Line With Teens: Boundaries, Screen Time, and Building Trust Oct 02, 2025

Parenting tweens and teens is no easy task—especially for single parents balancing work, household demands, and emotional stress. Many parents struggle with screen time battles, behavior problems, and the fear of losing connection with their teenager. The truth? Setting clear boundaries doesn’t push...

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Parenting Middle Schoolers: 3 Shifts Single Parents Need for Boundaries, Screen Time, and Communication Sep 30, 2025

Parenting tweens and teens can feel overwhelming, especially in the middle school years. Mood swings, behavior problems, and screen time challenges often leave parents—especially single parents—wondering how to balance independence with boundaries. Conscious parenting during this stage can reduce co...

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How Single Parents Can Support Tweens Through Friendship Drama and Social Shifts Sep 25, 2025

If you’re a single parent of a tween or teen, you already know the challenges of managing screen time, behavior, and communication at home. But one of the toughest hurdles? Watching your child struggle through shifting friendships.

Suddenly, the friend group they relied on changes. They’re left out...

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Tired of Arguing With Your Tween or Teen? How Single Parents Can Reset the Relationship Sep 23, 2025

As a single parent, parenting tweens and teens can feel like an uphill battle.


From screen time fights to door-slamming attitudes, many parents find themselves stuck in a daily cycle of conflict that feels impossible to escape. And when you're parenting solo, without a partner to tag in, the emoti...

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Single Parents: How to End Screen Time Battles with Tweens and Teens Before School Starts Sep 18, 2025

The Summer Screen Time Reality for Single Parents

If you're a single parent of tweens and teens, chances are summer has brought some unwelcome challenges to your household. Unlimited screen time, behavior problems, and communication breakdowns have become the new normal. Sound familiar?

You're not...

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How Single Parents Can Handle Phone Refusals: What to Do When Your Teen Won’t Give Up the Phone Sep 16, 2025

 If you’re a single parent of tweens or teens, you’ve probably faced this moment: it’s time to hand over the phone—maybe for bedtime, homework, or as a consequence—and your child flat-out refuses. Suddenly, a simple request turns into a power struggle. Your stomach drops, your voice rises, and you’r...

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What Single Parents Can Do If Their Teen Is Vaping or Drinking Sep 14, 2025

Parenting tweens and teens comes with moments that can take your breath away—both in awe and in fear. For single parents especially, finding out your child is vaping marijuana, drinking, or experimenting with substances can feel like a crisis. But it doesn’t have to be the end of trust. In fact, it ...

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The Modified FAFO Parenting Approach: How Single Parents Can Use Natural Consequences with Tweens and Teens Sep 09, 2025

Parenting tweens and teens today often feels like a full-time job of nagging, rescuing, and refereeing. Single parents especially feel the pressure — homework police, screen-time enforcer, and morning drill sergeant all before breakfast.

That’s why a recent internet meme — FAFO (Find Out) — struck ...

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