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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,...

Treatment programs for troubled boys differ from ones for girls. As a parent, we want to make sure our children get the help they need to overcome the challenges they’re struggling with now, so they can live successful lives later. Understanding the benefits of a...

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...

We’ve all heard about bullying if we didn’t already experience it ourselves growing up. Most frequently discussed regarding school-aged kids, bully is unwanted and unwarranted aggressive and mean behavior towards someone “less powerful.” Bullying can be in the form of...

Parenting a teenager can be tough. They're at the age when they are developing an identity separate from yours, and while they often aren’t self-sufficient yet, they are experimenting with self-sufficiency and testing your boundaries of authority as a result. It can...

As parents, we’ve all had days, even weeks, when we struggle to communicate with our teenagers. We can’t seem to find a balance or see eye to eye, and the arguments and anger keeps building. Sometimes it feels like you’ll never get your teen back, and you’re running...

Back in 2000, professional researchers suggested the “provision of specialized services and programs for women in order to improve outcomes of drug abuse treatment.” Today, that is available to you in the form of all-girl therapeutic boarding schools. Teenage girls...

It is late at night, and you are sitting at your kitchen table. A cup of coffee is gripped in your hands as you glance at the clock; three hours past the curfew. The curfew that you set with the express condition that your teen follow it if you lifted the month long...

When you lack in self-confidence, you lack in self-reliance. If you can’t believe that you’re worth it, or that you can do anything right, you lose the ambition to try. There is nothing more damning to the soul than the absence of hope. When you’re a teen struggling...

All parents make mistakes - lots of them. It's a constantly changing process with an increasingly sharp learning curve. It's always hard to face mistakes, but it can be especially difficult to accept that our mistakes have negatively impacted our children. When...

The years of raising a teenager are tumultuous and full of peril, or so it may seem. Helping your teen through the various challenges they face is an important part of your job. It can be incredibly difficult when they are secretive or resistant to your involvement....

If you are the parent of a sexually curious teen you might find yourself feeling a lot of anxiety thinking about the possible repercussions of their actions. Every day is a minefield, and everything your teen does feels risky or deceptive. You might wait up at night...

Troubled teens are committing crimes at an alarming rate. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 13% of violent crime arrests and 22% of property crime arrests were people who were under the age of 18. In 2010, there were 784 juveniles...