The best you can do to manage your troubled girl’s behavioral issues is to let go. Many times, behavioral issues such as talking back and lashing out are due to a parents trying to control their child. The teenage years are marked by an urgency to create a sense of...
You’ve tried everything in your local area to help your teen – switching schools, moving, and therapists. Now, you’re left with the only option you haven’t tried – out of state treatment. Out of state therapeutic boarding school is a viable option for many teenagers...
It seems harmless to send your 8-year-old son to a friend’s house after school. You know the parents, and he’s been going there since he was six. What harm could come from it? Unfortunately, kids don’t stay innocent, and they could be exposed to more than you’d like...
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...
