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Is A Youth Boot Camp A Good Idea For My Troubled Teen?
When your child is struggling with discipline issues and rebellious behavior, you would do anything to help them bring their life back on track. Youth boot camps are often mentioned as a potential option to herd an acting-out teen back onto the straight and narrow....
Teens And Parents Greatly Benefit From Residential Treatment Centers For Teens
The benefits for those who have a son or daughter attending a residential treatment center for troubled teens may seem lopsided at times. Does the teen receive the most value, or do the parents? In reality, both the parents and the troubled teen can greatly benefit...
Celebrating Thanksgiving With Teens At A Therapeutic Boarding School
If your teen is going to be still attending a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens or you are considering sending your teen away before the holidays begin, it may be tough to know how to celebrate Thanksgiving. As your parental advocate and expert on...
Therapeutic Boarding Schools: Medical Licensing and Services
If you’ve been considering sending your struggling teenager to a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens, you are likely wondering what qualifications these schools possess to be caring for your child. Therapeutic boarding schools are not a homogenous group,...
Teasing VS Bullying: Helping Adults and Youth Recognize the Difference
Bullying can often be dismissed as teasing. Some people use the two terms interchangeably, but teasing and bullying are not the same kinds of actions. This distinction is due to how teasing affects people differently than how bullying affects others. Researchers have...
National Bullying Prevention Month: What to do when your teen is the bully
While no parent wants to hear that their child is being bullied, it can feel even worse to find out that your child is the bully. However, when troubled teens turn to bullying others, often the only way the bullying teen will change is with the help of their parents....
Licensing and Regulations Followed By Residential Treatment Centers
Any organization that works with a vulnerable population, such as struggling teenagers, should be licensed and highly regulated. However, residential treatment centers for troubled teens have widely varying levels of licensing and regulation. There Is No Federal...
Common Methods Of Payment For Youth Residential Treatment Centers
It can be expensive to send your son or daughter to a residential treatment center for teens. If you are concerned about how you will afford treatment for your troubled teen, we wanted to review some of the common methods of payment that other parents utilize. Loans...
Positive Teen Parenting: 5 Ways To Prevent Teens From Sexting
On average, kids get their first smartphone at 10.3 years, catapulting them into the digital world. Once they’ve reached this rite of passage, much of their social interaction revolves around their phone and other devices. This may include their first forays into...
Holistic Learning At Therapeutic Boarding Schools
Standard educational methods often fall short when it comes to preparing teenagers to become successful young adults. This shortfall becomes glaringly apparent when trying to help a troubled teen succeed in the public school system. When this system breaks down,...
Avoiding Boot Camps as a Form Of Treatment For Your Aggressive Teen Son
When a teen starts to act out aggressively, it can seem like a natural conclusion to send the troubled teen away to a youth boot camp. That way, the militaristic discipline can “straighten them out” for the parents. However, this plan can often backfire and return the...
Experts No Longer Recommend Youth Boot Camps For Behavior Modification
When looking for ways to help your troubled teen change their negative behaviors, you may have come across youth boot camps as a potential solution. However, many experts have found that not only do boot camps not work but these kinds of programs can actually...
10 Ways To Afford Your Teen’s Residential Treatment Center
Choosing to send your son or daughter to a residential treatment center for troubled teens is not an easy financial decision to make. To help you determine how you can afford to send your teen to a residential treatment center, we have 11 different options you can...
Recognizing Signs of Smoking and Tobacco Use In Our Teens
If your child is one of the nearly 5 million middle and high school students who are teenage tobacco users, it’s time to intervene to stop this health-harming habit. First, you need to find out if nicotine has found its way into your troubled teen’s routine, whether...
Learning To Balance Our Youth’s Use Of Social Media
Social media can be a serious source of trouble for teens. Teens have been caught bullying each other on social media, been rejected from prestigious colleges due to what they posted, and other devastating circumstances which can turn a successful child into a...