Inside: Learn 6 common behaviors that signal pre-adolescence in a child and how to handle them with confidence.

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While parents are told to ‘buckle up’ for the teenage years, we don’t talk much about the turbulence of the years leading up to adolescence, the pre-teen years.

We should, though. The pre-adolescent years (between the ages of nine and 12) are chock full of amazing developmental changes for your child; cognitive, physical, and emotional. The volume and velocity of these changes can leave us wondering, who took our sweet child and replaced them with a villain from ‘The Descendants’?

It can be an unsettling and confusing time, for both you and your child, but have no fear, there is much hope for the both of you. [Read more…]