by Natalie | Dec 25, 2017 | Blog
Communication with teens is crucial when it comes to helping them through adolescence. It’s not easy, though. Parents often struggle with connecting with their teenager because this stage of development is marked with a strong desire to break away from parental...
by Natalie | Dec 24, 2017 | Blog
He’s isolative. He’s angry. He’s violent. You have no idea what you’re going to do with your adolescent boy who has seemed to take a 180 with his behavior. Behavioral disorders are serious. They lead to risky behaviors and situations. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and criminal...
by Natalie | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog
Unfortunately, adults are not the only people who have to experience grief in this world–children and teens do, too. And grief is just as individual an experience for teens and children as it is for adults. Let’s focus on the grieving process for teens....
by Natalie | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
Suicide is possibly the cruelest means of death for survivors to reconcile. Unlike a heart attack, cancer or a car crash, survivors of a friend or family member who has taken their own life are forever left with the question, “Why?” Teen suicide rates are startling....
by Natalie | Nov 24, 2017 | Blog
Every year in the United States, countless parents of teenage boys find themselves engaged in the struggle of their lives. Their teens have become openly defiant to them, as well to all authority figures in their life. These parents are at a loss. They have no clue...
by Natalie | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
As a father, the older your daughter gets, the more difficult it can be to feel connected. You can’t throw her over your shoulder or tickle torture her like when she was a child, but you still want to remain close so she will never doubt your love for her. Here...
