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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.
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.
11 Reasons Why Teens Abuse Prescription Opiates – And How Parents Can Prevent It
From a study of thousands of adolescent opiate users we learn the 11 most common reasons why teens abuse pain pills. Ultimately it all comes down to easy availability and misperceptions about consequences and safety.
9 Important Rules for Supporting a Teenager with an Eating Disorder
Learn how to effectively support a teen who is already receiving professional care, but who still needs a ton of support from the rest of the family.
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.