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How Healthy Addictions Can Become Hindersome

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...

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Using The S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting Method In Your Home

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...

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De-Weaponizing Your Daughter’s Sexuality

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...

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5 Key Ways Teens Push Back on Strict Step Parents

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....

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Helping Your Teen Find Their “Thing”

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...

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Understanding Family Dynamics And Our Roles As Parents

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,...

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Parenting Teens Who Don’t Respond To Authority

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...

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