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Teen Alcohol Abuse Can Disrupt Transition Into Adulthood
Adolescents are on a bridge between childhood and adulthood. They’re at the uncomfortable intersection between being a child, under the influence of parents and teachers, and being an adult, attempting to find a sense of autonomy. And actually, that bridge comprises...
Help Your Teenager Beat Depression
By Sarah K. Ravin, Ph.D. 1. Learn all you can about depression in adolescents. Learn the signs and symptoms of depression and know how to differentiate between normal sadness or “teen angst” and clinical depression. All teenagers are moody and irritable at times, and...
Do you spend enough time with your Teen?
When your child was younger, it was probably easy to find time to spend time with him or her. Between bathing and bedtime routines, homework and mealtimes, spending time with younger children is often built into the family routine. But once your child enters...
Are Troubled Teenagers Ever a Lost Cause?
Some days, the struggles with your teen seem insurmountable. Between the constant verbal battles, the risky behaviors and the poor choices, you may feel like nothing you do will help. It's a feeling shared by many parents who are dealing with teenagers that have legal...
Is Family Dinner Time the Most Important Part of Your Day?
Between work, school, sports, lessons, homework and socialization, today’s families are busier than ever. Many times, we may go the entire day without saying more than a couple of words to our spouse or our children. However, dinner time can be a time to reconnect...
7 Parenting Tips for Teens with Behavior Challenges
Behavior challenges for a teen can be quite different than are behavior challenges in your children, and because your teenager is bigger (and more vocal!) dealing with those challenges can be demanding and difficult. Time outs and groundings may no longer work when...
5 Different Ways To Show Your Teen You Love Them
For many parents, showing an infant or child that they are loved is easy. Cuddling, hugs, kisses, allowing them to sneak into bed with you or even taking them out for spontaneous ice cream dates can all reassure children that they are loved. However, sometimes, it can...
Do Therapeutic Boarding Schools Really Help?
Making the decision to enroll your teenager in a therapeutic boarding school can be difficult. For many parents, it's a last resort in hopes that the boarding school can save their struggling child. For other parents, therapeutic boarding schools symbolize hope that...
What Its Like to Parent A Teen with ODD
School starts in less than an hour, and once again, everyone’s running behind. Suddenly, you hear a pounding of a fist and dishes hitting the floor as your teenager yells “Why did you make this crap for breakfast AGAIN?! You KNOW I don’t eat scrambled eggs. I’m not...
Top 13 Signs Your Teenager Is Struggling
As a parent, it can be heartbreaking to see your child struggling. Today's teens are at risk for many challenges, including depression, drug or alcohol use, mental illness, physical, sexual or emotional abuse or bullying. The following 13 signs can indicate that your...
Top 9 Signs Your Teen is Using Drugs
After years of teaching your children to stay away from drugs and alcohol, it can be one of your worst nightmares to have a strong suspicion that your teen is using drugs. Suspicion that your child is using can come on gradually after you begin to notice a few small...
The Parenting Challenges of Teens with ADHD and ODD
As a parent of a teen with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), it’s likely difficult to have the kind of relationship you might want with your child. It’s possibly challenging to find the soft spot inside of them...
Telltale Signs of Drug Abuse
For many young adults, drug and alcohol use is a means of relating to peers. Popular media’s portrayal of drug abuse as a normal component of the adolescent experience can often encourage the development of dangerous behaviors. Social media, pop culture and peer...
Why Your Teen Needs To Get A Job!
In my 3 decades of working with teens I have frequently been asked if teens should work. I am referring to working at jobs here not school. We are all clear that teens should put effort into schoolwork but less clear about other sorts of work. I have given this issue...
Everyone’s Doing It: What Today’s Teens Think About Marijuana-Infographic
With the recent legalization for marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington, teens are beginning to change the way they feel about smoking weed. Studies conducted in the last two years are starting to show that teens consider marijuana a rite of passage in high...