A friend told of the deep grief that her young son endured during a one week period in which he lost both a very close uncle and his first, childhood sweetheart.
The young boy’s sorrow knew no bounds. He barely stopped crying for days. When relatives at the Uncle’s funeral offered to take him […]
Cruelty to animals & smaller children
Morbid fascination (beyond normal for juvenile males) with violence and death
Fascination with fire /fire-setting
Threats or talk about killing or harming others
Considered “weird” or dangerous by peers
Uncontrollable temper tantrums, especially at early ages
Narcissistic, thinks others have no rights
History of enuresis (bedwetting)
* Note, though, that many children possess one or
more of these […]
Is your teen on the verge of out-of-control? What is that looking like in your house? Is your teen invisible, lurking in the shadows, snarling like a late night cat as they pass you in the halls? Is it belligerence, in-your-face defiance or is it a chain of little lies, slowly strangling the respect […]
The first few times a college student abuses prescription drugs might be to get thru exams. Then the addition of sports or a part time job cuts into study time and he finds he need more hours of the days to stay awake. The natural progression from there is to find drugs to go […]
Parents seeking support for their drug abusing teenagers must not only contend with the pain, cost and sorrow of their out-of control teen’s behavior, they have to grapple with the implications of abetting the state’s ability to interfere within the family. Communities across the nation are challenging the right of a given school to punish […]
This is an excerpt of an entry written by a teenager who, from what I can ascertain, has been studying up on teen suicide statistics. He reacts with the following….
“Scary eh? Honestly, I have anger problems, numbing pain through gaming and lastly, thoughts(thoughts only, I didn’t go anywhere dangerous) of suicide.
Behind the strong Shaun […]
Deborah Dillon is convinced her brother Bill’s pug Buddy - named aptly enough - is the reason he is doing so well. Two years ago, he bought Buddy, but a few months after the dog’s arrival, Dillon’s brother, who has AIDS, became extremely ill. Bill decided he could no longer take care of Buddy and […]
Your teenager has made it all the way to college and you hope that he will survive the typically tempestuous first two years. If he succeeds in resisting the vortex of teenage binge drinking, he will be well on his way to graduation. Recent studies indicate a college student’s tendency to “party hearty” diminishes […]
The sexualization of young girls is a growing cause of concern among parents. There is no need to examine what that looks like - we see it everyday when a 10 year old sashays by in a mini skirt and lipstick.
“There are now lingerie clothing lines for preteen girls, and bras for girls under […]
What do troubled teenagers need? The threats to a healthy and fulfilling adolescence range from drug abuse, to steroid abuse, to online computer obsessions to adult predators to self-mutilation to teenage pregnancies and the list goes on and on.
Teenage drug abuse wouldn’t exist if a teenager fully understood their worth as a human being […]