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How Healthy Addictions Can Become Hindersome
Addiction, whether to gambling, alcohol, drugs, shopping, etc., can be detrimental to someone’s well-being. Left unchecked, it can wreak havoc with a person’s life, affecting their health, finances, academics and family. But what about healthy addictions? Are they ok...
Using The S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting Method In Your Home
30 If you want to set regular goals in your household and then see them succeed, then you need to use the S.M.A.R.T method: setting goals that are Sustainable, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely. S - Specific Goals Are Best Specific goals help the goal setter...
De-Weaponizing Your Daughter’s Sexuality
A recent study has shown that while teenage sexual activity has gone down overall in the U.S., one-third of high school students (equally male and female) are engaging in sexual activity. And with hormones running rampant, teenage girls can discover they can use their...
What’s The Damage? Help Your Son See How His Attitude Affects His Future
Teenagers can have trouble seeing how their current behavior can affect their futures. As the adult in their life, it is up to you to help them see how a bad attitude can damage their future prospects. Examine Attitude As erratic as a teenage boys behavior can look...
Working On Leadership Skills At Home To Teach Your Teen About Discipline
Studies have shown that peer groups that focus on creating connections between high risk teens can be incredibly beneficial in developing li developing social and life skills, while curbing detrimental behavioral problems. But this kind of thinking can actually begin...
How Boys Can Learn About Their Character From These Key Challenges
We all wish that we could just make life easy for our children. We would make sure everything goes smoothly, they never have to truly struggle and nothing hurts them. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Sadly it doesn’t work that way and our teenagers will have to face a number...
5 Key Ways Teens Push Back on Strict Step Parents
No matter what event led to your becoming a step parent (divorce, death, prior birth outside of wedlock), it's a major adjustment for everyone involved. Any time you take a group of people and blend them into a family, to call it a challenge is a big understatement....
When Fitness Factors Are A Massive Impact On Your Teen’s Depression
The connection between physical fitness and better mental health is becoming common knowledge. But when faced with your teen’s depression, it can be hard to believe something so simple as a lack of physical fitness could really impact your teen to such a great extent....
How You Can Handle A Spouse That Asserts Too Much Authority On Your Teen
Authority is a tricky thing. As a parent you absolutely have to have it. As a teen they absolutely have to challenge it. Too little causes chaos. Too much causes distrust. Figuring out the balance of authority is a constant challenge in a parent-teen relationship, and...
Helping Your Teen Find Their “Thing”
Approximately 20 percent of teens will experience depression before they reach adulthood. 30 percent of teens with depression will also develop a substance abuse problem, and more teens and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth...
Understanding Family Dynamics And Our Roles As Parents
Family dynamics are how your family interacts and relates with one another. While no two families are the same, there are patterns common in every family. Your teenager's self-perception and viewpoint of the world is influenced a great deal by your family's dynamics,...
The Parents Guide To Phrasing: How To Disarm Your Teens Behavior Issues
Sometimes talking with our kids can spiral way out of control. You walk into a discussion trying to ask your teen to do something and suddenly you’re both shouting. You both leave the conversation upset and furious and nothing productive happened. Here are some tips...
How Advances In Data Mining Of Social Media Can Predict Teen Substance Abuse
Parents of teens worry about substance abuse - it just comes with the territory. Teens are getting involved with drugs and alcohol at much younger ages, and even if they don’t get involved with drugs or alcohol in high school there is still a significant risk of them...
Practices to Review 3 Months After Your Teen Exits a Therapeutic Boarding School
Therapeutic boarding schools can be an option for teens who are struggling with a serious disorder like ADHD, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, eating disorders, etc. During your teen’s time at one of these schools, he will likely have participated...
Parenting Teens Who Don’t Respond To Authority
It can be extremely difficult to deal with a teenage child who has complete disregard for authority, especially the authority of their parents. However, this occurs all too often during the period where teens are struggling to define themselves and parents are...