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Supporting Adolescent Recovery – 7 Steps to Better Communication with Your Teen
Parental support is a necessary component of teen addiction recovery, but you can’t have full support until you build real communication; learn how to improve your parent-teen communication skills in 7 easy steps.
Your Adult Child Has a Drug Problem - Get Past Guilt and Useless Worry
Moving past guilt and powerlessness as we wait for adult children to find recovery.
Relational Bullying – The Power and Pain of Social Bullying
Relational bullies use our needs for acceptance and friendship against us as they manipulate and harm our social relationships. The victims of relational bullies may never come home battered and bruised, but the pain of being the victim nasty gossip and rumors or social exclusion is just as real and just as harmful. Relational bullying peaks during middle school and its perpetrators and victims are usually girls, and unfortunately - most of the time, the bullies get away with and adults never even learn about it. Learn more about relational bullying and about what you can do to make sure your child never becomes a victim.
9 Strategies for Dealing with a Bully
Bullying is common, but it’s not harmless; in fact, children who get bullied can experience consequences like depression, social anxiety or low self esteem that can last all the way into adulthood. If you or someone you love is getting bullied, you need to make it stop. Read on to learn 9 proven ways to deal with bullies.
Is Your Teen a Narcissist? Learn the Warning Signs and Treatment Options
If an adolescent acts entitled, grandiose and self obsessed, does that mean she's a narcissist? Maybe...but probably not. Learn the differences between normal traits of teen development and those of narcissistic personality disorder.
Fixing a Troubled Parent-Teen Relationship - 10 Easy Steps to Better Interactions
After getting into trouble with drugs or alcohol (or behavior problems) your teen child needs you more than ever. Unfortunately, the negativity that accompanies these situations often poisons the parent-child relationship to a point where it’s hard to effectively parent. Here are 10 easy ways to repair the damage.
What to Do When Your Teen Child Hates You
Don't take it personally. Children and their relationships to their parents change as they go through different developmental stages. Being aware of this allows a parent to adapt to this as well as to not take things personally when they shouldn’t.
Giving Ultimatums to Teens – A Word of Caution
Parenting a teen can be frustrating. Parents often get frustrated and when they are not thinking clearly may resort to issuing an ultimatum. There are serious cautions around this and better strategies for parents to try.
Adolescent and Young Adult ADHD and Substance Abuse - How to Intervene
Children with ADHD face a variety of challenges when they first leave home. What can parents do if they start to see signs of substance abuse in their newly independent young adult children?
8 Secrets to Loving and Raising a Teen with Addiction
A little tension is normal in the parent-teen relationship, but when your teen suffers from addiction and loses control over their actions, relations in the family can get pretty damaged in a hurry. Here are 8 parenting tips on raising a child with addiction to happy and healthy adulthood while maintaining some peace in the household.
Bullying Warning Signs - Is Your Child a Victim?
Bullying is serious and harmful and unfortunately all too common. Is your child a victim of bullying at school? If you answered with a no; are you absolutely sure that you’re right? Learn about the warning signs of bullying and be ready to spot it and intervene early when necessary.
My Child Is a Bully. What Should I Do?
No parent wants to imagine their child as the playground bully, but if you learn that your son or daughter is a possible bully, you have to take it seriously and you need to take steps to make sure the bullying stops. Bullying hurts not only the victim, the aggressors are also at risk of long term harms - such as an increased risk of substance abuse, poor academic performance and even an increased risk of a criminal record. Fortunately, just as bullying is a learned behavior so too can it be unlearned. Here are a few tips and strategies that can help you to help your child overcome their bullying ways.
Parents - Don’t Raise a Bully! Parenting Strategies that Reduce Violence and Bullying
Bullying is learned behavior and it can be learned in the home. Here’s how to help your child reject violence and unhealthy aggression.
The Important Role of Bystanders – Teaching Great Kids How to Beat Bullying
An overwhelming majority of bullying incidents happen in front of peer bystanders – but no adults. Research shows clearly that when bystanders speak out against the bullying the bullying usually stops within seconds, but in an overwhelming majority of incidences, and for a number of reasons, bystanders do nothing to help. Learn more about the role bystanders play in the perpetuation of bullying and learn how you can teach your child to put a stop to any bullying she sees, while making sure she stays safe.
The Importance of Supervision and Activity during the after School Hours
Kids and teens left unsupervised in the hours between the end of school and dinner are far more likely to get into trouble with drugs and alcohol. Read the research findings that paint a scary picture of the consequences of too much unstructured time.
Parents Who Binge Drink - Don’t Be Surprised When Your Teens Do Likewise!
Teens that delay their first experimentation with alcohol until the age of 21 have virtually no risk of ever developing an alcohol abuse problem, but what can parents do to keep these experimentally prone youngsters from trying alcohol? - Researchers say that one of the most important things you can do to keep your children safe is to set a good example in the home and to practice what you preach!
Helping Children Cope after a Disaster
A guide to how children feel and act after experiencing a disaster and what parents can do to minimize fear and other harms.
Should You Be Drug Testing Your Teen?
Not knowing is the worst...and drug tests promise parents the peace of mind that comes with certainty; but drug tests do come with some risks attached, and before you initiate a family testing policy you first need to get educated and informed.
Anger Does Not Demonstrate Parenting Authority
Anger has no place in discipline. It does not assert authority nor does it ensure that you've been heard. Learn better ways to communicate with your children.
Thriving as a Family when Addiction or Mental Illness Brings Adult Children Home Again
Supporting our adult children in this day and age often means allowing them to move back home for a time. In the case of addictions and mental illness, we sometimes find that the love of parents is exploited or simply taken for granted. Here are tips on thriving as a family when adult children come back home again.
Addiction Recovery for Single Parents
When caring for the kids means seeking help for addiction: Overwhelmed by the competing demands of daily life, single parents are at a higher risk for substance abuse and addiction.
Repairing an Estranged Father - Son Relationship
When rebuilding an estranged father - son relationship there are 4 cornerstones that fathers or role models must recognize and establish before anything concrete can be created. They are . . .
Your Teen Drinks or Uses Drugs – 5 Tips for Getting Them to Stop
OK – you’ve caught your son or daughter drinking or using drugs – now what? Well, the first thing you need to do is make sure they don’t repeat their mistakes and keep using or drinking, and if they can’t or won’t stop, then you need to get them some help. So after catching them experimenting with substance use, what’s really important is that you monitor their activities so that you’ll know right away if they continue to use or drink. Here are 5 ways to do just that.
Parenting Styles that Prevent Drug and Alcohol Experimentation
Although as the parent of a teen you may wonder how much influence you have, research shows pretty clearly that what you do (or don’t do) has a huge impact on your teen’s health, happiness, and even choices. Learn which parenting styles reduce the odds of drug and alcohol abuse and which styles increase the risks – and learn how parental monitoring can keep your son or daughter safe from the worst of the dangers.
Prevent Underage Drinking – How to Send a Clear Message on Alcohol to Your Children
Parents who send a clear message to their kids about the unacceptability of underage drinking have kids that are less likely to get into trouble with alcohol – but sending a clear message about drinking doesn’t begin and end with a single conversation, rather it takes both word and deed and particularly, the setting of a positive example in your own life. Want your kids to steer clear of underage drinking? Here are 7 ways to send the right message in your home.