Camp Crush

Dear Sharon,
A 9-year-old boy has developed a huge crush apparently on my 16-year-old teenage daughter who’s a counselor at his summer day camp. He calls her at home all the time, and it’s made her very uncomfortable. Her natural impulse is to avoid him now at all costs. I think there is [...]

Pre-teen Crushes

Dear Sharon,
My son is in the sixth grade. He is pretty typical for his age I guess. Recently I noticed that he has written a girl’s name all over his school notebooks. Our assumption is that he has a crush on someone. We haven’t addressed this kind of issue with him yet. Is it time [...]