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Violence is a serious concern among youth. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey reports 16.6 percent of high school students carried a weapon at least once, and 7.4 percent reported being threatened or injured by a...

Warning Signs - you can’t see them if you don’t know what to look for, and the consequences can be drastic if you miss them altogether. It might be a sign that says “icy roads ahead” or your boss scheduling a meeting with you at 4 pm on a Friday, or it might be...

Teenage boys… are they speaking another language? Actually most of the time it may feel like they aren’t speaking at all! Connecting with your teen son can seem challenging, if not impossible, especially when you feel like you’ve “missed the boat” or too much time has...

Your daughter is growing up in a world of comparison. She compares her likes and dislikes to those of her friends. She compares her brain and accomplishments to those of her classmates. She compares the attention she receives to how much you give her siblings. She...

There is a terrifying statistic that no parent wants to hear, and yet every parent needs to know. Every 100 minutes, a teenager commits suicide. So prevalent is suicide in children between the ages of 15 and 24 that it is the third biggest cause of death in that age...

Dealing with a teenage daughter who is out of control can be a draining and devastating ordeal. No parent wants to consider sending their child away from home, but sometimes it is necessary not only for the daughter, but the safety and well being of other family...

Sending an adolescent to therapeutic boarding school is a big decision, and once that decision is made, it’s often followed with worry and guilt, according to the NYTimes. This can lead to many questions that many parents are embarrassed to ask. This is why we’ve...

The Jessica Logan Case In July 2008, 18-year-old Jessica Logan hanged herself alone in her closet, after returning home from a funeral for a friend. Her friend had also committed suicide. Jessica Logan was a victim of cyberbullying. Mobile phones played a crucial part...

Divorce is always difficult, but there are always factors that can make it worse. Adolescents in particular can take divorce very hard. They may turn to substance abuse as an attempt to cope with their feelings. Parents want their children to come out of the divorce...

The media is full of images that claim to promote the perfect body. What body type this might be will differ based on the person who is posting the photo, and tastes vary. But one thing remains the same: they idealize a certain figure, and demonize the rest. When...

As your kids grow from children to adolescence, you’ll see a natural exploration of independence. For many parents, this independence is manifest as pushing back and acting out when they feel they’re being controlled. Most often, the worst of their behavioral problems...

The parent-child relationship is important - it “fosters empathy, honesty, self-reliance, self-control, kindness, cooperation, and cheerfulness. It also promotes intellectual curiosity, motivation, and desire to achieve. It helps protect children from developing...

Parenting – it seems that even those without children have all kinds of advice on how to raise a child. Any parent has likely discovered or tried all sorts of tips and techniques on their own. While some ideas might simply be common sense, research time and again has...

You turn on the television and flip through the channels. Stopping on a show that you’ve seen your teen daughter and her friends talking about on social media, you watch the oversexualized young people tackle adult topics that are well beyond their maturity levels,...

When your teen gets angry, one of the worst things you can do is fight back. The screaming, the shouting and the arguments aren’t just affecting you and your teen, but everyone around you, too. Including your family. If you have little ones looking up to you teen this...