Teenagers
Raising a Teenage Daughter: The Protective Factors Were Measured, and Almost None of Them Are About Feelings
Teenage girls report persistent sadness at nearly twice the rate of teenage boys, and the national survey that measured that gap also measured what sits alongside lower risk. The protective factors are logistics rather than emotional fluency, and every one of them was scored from her answers, not her father's.
Parenting a Teenager With ADD: The Quiet Presentation Is Not the Mild One
ADD stopped being a diagnosis in 1994, and the word a father still uses for his quiet, drifting teenager carries an assumption the research does not support. A study of 5,059 children found the inattentive presentation carries elevated impulsivity, not less of it. What the label hides, what the evidence actually measured, and what a father does with the difference.
Christian Parenting of a Teenager: What Transfers, and What Only Looks Like It Does
Your teenager still comes to church, so the faith looks like it is holding. The Pew data on 1,811 teen and parent pairs says attendance and conviction move independently, that about a third of teens who believe differently have not told their parent, and that highly religious homes transmit less reliably than nonreligious ones. What that means for a father, and what to do with it.
Parenting Teenager Podcasts: Which Ones Are Still Running, and How to Make One Change Something
A checked list of parenting teenager podcasts, every feed verified on 26 August 2026 for episode count and last publish date, including two widely recommended shows that have gone quiet. Plus the harder part, which is what listening actually changes and how to make it change something before the weekend.
Parenting an ADHD Teenager: What Changes at Twelve, and What Actually Holds Up
Parenting a teenager with ADHD is a different job than parenting a child with ADHD, and the treatment guidelines quietly say so. What the research supports, which part of a working plan reliably falls apart, and the one high-stakes risk most fathers never get told about.
Parenting Teenager Advice: How to Tell What Works From What Backfires
Advice for fathers of teenagers arrives with confidence that has almost nothing to do with evidence, and the most intuitive advice of all has been tested and found to make things worse. Here is the filter for sorting the advice that holds up from the advice that quietly costs you the relationship.
Love and Logic Parenting for a Teenager: What Holds Up and What to Drop
Love and Logic promises to end the power struggles with your teenager using choices, empathy, and consequences. Some of it is the best advice a father of a teenager will ever get. Some of it curdles into manipulation if you run it as a script. Here is the honest version, and where the evidence backs it.
Teenager Parenting: The Job Quietly Changed and Nobody Told You
Parenting a teenager is a different job than parenting a child, and most fathers get fired from the old one without noticing. What the teenage years actually ask of you, what the evidence says works, and where the line between guiding and controlling really sits.
How to Reconnect With Your Teenage Son (Without a Big Talk)
The door is not as closed as it looks. A field guide for fathers of one-word teenagers: why the silence is normal, why the big talk backfires, and the small moves that actually reopen the line.