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Building self-confidence is important to your child’s success. The biggest challenge in life is overcoming debilitating low self-esteem. Being able to show them how they can boost themselves now will help them well into the future, as they get hit by life’s perils....

Parents and teens have been at odds since the dawn of time, arguing about school, relationships, activities, privileges, responsibilities and more. However, teens in 2016 deal with a plethora of new complications that seem to make their lives more difficult than those...

As young people enter their teen years, they grow more independent, which sometimes leads to conflicts with you as their parents. You might wonder how you can know if your teen is experiencing normal physical, mental and emotional transitions or if he or she is...

There’s an Igbo and Yoruba proverb many people have heard, “It takes a village to raise a child.” The proverb emphasized the need for not only parents to raise a child, but for everyone around that child to help. If you’re a parent of a troubled teen, you’re probably...

Teens most often do not want to seek therapy. They go to therapy because their parents, teachers, or even a judge has ordered them to go. This is not only ineffective, but challenging for everyone involved. When troubled teens enroll in therapeutic intervention...

Changing behaviors, especially those of teenagers can be challenging. However, it is possible with the correct approach. Principles in classical and operant conditioning through behavior modification is one of the most effective ways to change troubled teen behaviors....

Let’s face it — even the best of teens can develop a negative attitude. Whether it’s about homework, sports, relationships or other key areas of his or her life, you might need to help your teen turn around their thinking from "can’t" to "can". As their parent, you...

A hopeless situation can affect your entire life. Feeling trapped, lost, discouraged, or out of options casts a pall over day-to-day activities, making it feel like you’re living your life underneath a stormy raincloud. The situation only gets more dire when it...

Tackling teenagers is no easy feat. It can feel like an uphill battle that you’re losing, daily. One consoling fact might be that you aren’t alone. Most of the teen behavior problems you’re experiencing are relatively universal, and at least there are a few solutions...

It’s a delicate balance between work and home. Every working professional struggles with it. It’s easy to spend extra hours at the office to get ahead, or when you’re vying for a big promotion, or you’re up against a big deadline. Even when you leave the office right...

Chances are the list of things you and your teen BOTH find interesting is pretty short. There are probably days where it feels like the Venn Diagram is actually just two separate circles that don’t intersect at all. Not only are you a full generation apart in age and...

When your child returns home after completing treatment in a residential treatment center, parents naturally feel anxious about helping him or her maintain gains from treatment. Advance planning can help him or her transition to living at home again. In fact,...

Over 1 million American teens go to juvenile court every year. Approximately 160,000 of those teens are referred to residential placement. One of the most preferred residential placements are therapeutic boarding schools. About Therapeutic Boarding Schools According...

One of the toughest parts of being a parent is communicating with our teens. Their bodies are going through a lot of changes, and that can cause them to act in ways that make us feel as though we’ve lost them forever. As you desperately try to reel them back in,...