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 ...
Q. I’m not bragging but I’m a great athlete. I work hard at it. I play a school sport every season – football in the fall, basketball over winter, and baseball in the spring. I’ve been involved with sports as long as I can remember. I played soccer as a four-year old! I’m a junior now ...
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 ...
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. ...
Teens at the Common Ground Teen Center, located at 92 N. Main St. in Washington, will be hosting a Love Anyway Feast from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14. The Love Anyway Feast is an open house and patterned after the Common Ground USA events. The goal of the feast is to give teens a ...
Q. My best friend since kindergarten is no longer my friend. I don’t know what I did. She won’t talk to me. What do I do? –13-year-old Mary Jo’s Response: I do wish this wasn’t ...
