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Bad behavior in video-gaming realm

Q. Mary Jo, if you could hear some of the vile and mean things the teenage boys (and men) say to our 15-year-old daughter on the video-gaming discords, you'd wonder where these boys' moms and dads are. If a woman dares to enter their gaming space, and actually beats them, it's an unusual day ...

Teen frustrated by momÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ overprotectiveness

Q. I feel like my mom gives me mixed signals. She wants me to be popular, to the point where she tries to oversee how I dress and asks me detailed questions about my friends, like who did I sit with at lunch and what was our conversation? I like school and my grades are good, but she mostly ...

Moving past differences after election

Q. You know how you always ask if we want to do high point, low point? I almost always pass. I don’t like talking in front of other people. But I remember this one time you said we could always write to you if something was bothering us. Well, my low point right now is huge. So I’m writing. ...

Adjusting to middle school difficult for many

Q.: Well, I’ve been back to school almost a month and itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ not what I hoped middle school would be. I was worried about it all of August and my mom said it’ll be fine. My gram said I was old enough to just deal with it. My dad said, be a man. I don’t feel like being a man. We had a lock ...