If you've ever lived with a tween, plan to cohabitate with one within the next decade, have made it to tweendom's other side, or have been a tween yourself, this one's for you. A blog about kids who find themselves in that wonderfully emotional, beautiful, frustrating, crazy, roller-coaster time of life that we know as 8 to 12 years of age. It's also about those of us who are along for the ride, or as I prefer to think of it, setting the course. Yeah, I know. Who am I kidding?

As I write this, my daughter is gearing up for her 10th birthday. She's beside herself with excitement; I'm blinking back the tears. And so the stage is set. Let's see how it goes.