Parenting is a tough gig, and it can get even tougher when your child is in their teenage years when raging hormones and crushing social pressure make “normal” a moving target. You’re going to need some resources providing straight talk on the pleasures and pitfalls...
While no parent wants to hear that their child is being bullied, it can feel even worse to find out that your child is the bully. However, when troubled teens turn to bullying others, often the only way the bullying teen will change is with the help of their parents....
When a teen starts to act out aggressively, it can seem like a natural conclusion to send the troubled teen away to a youth boot camp. That way, the militaristic discipline can “straighten them out” for the parents. However, this plan can often backfire and return the...
If your child is one of the nearly 5 million middle and high school students who are teenage tobacco users, it’s time to intervene to stop this health-harming habit. First, you need to find out if nicotine has found its way into your troubled teen’s routine, whether...
When you consider that more teenagers own smart phones than adults and that almost half of all teenagers have smartphones, you begin to understand the weight of social pressure your teen feels to have one. But before you rush to the nearest cell phone store, consider...
Drugs are everywhere! There is a good chance you might not even need to leave your desk or your home before you could find a substance which can induce euphoria. If those drugs are that close to you, they are that close to your teens too. At Arm’s Length In most homes...
