Summary If you're in a crisis with your kids, where do you go to for advice? Do you hit all those expert books out there or do you turn to your family and friends? In this week's feature report, we meet the O'Grady and Needler families who get help and information both ways. Featuring parenting expert and author Barbara Coloroso. Reality Check: Kids are Mean Benita Rowley on the peril to her self esteem when her child tells the "truth" a little too truthfully. How to: Talk to teens about sex Sexual health educator Kim Martyn takes some of her own advice talking to her daughters. Here are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to talking to your teenagers about sex. Be patient and keep the conversation light and humorous. Use age appropriate language and the correct terms. Books are a good way to open up the topic and television can be used to keep a dialogue going around values. Video Diary: Parent Test - the Willard and Ruddell families You know how you can test drive a new car? Wouldn't it be great if we could test drive being a parent? On this week's video diary, we take Amy, one very single woman and drop off two rambunctious kids on her doorstep. She has one day to find out what it's really like to be a mom. Will it change her mind about wanting her own?

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