Many parents are fatalistically discouraged before they even start searching for a troubled teen boarding school. Even though recent statistics say that teen age drug abuse has undergone some decreasing numbers, there are simultaneous reports predicting a new wave of cheap variations of heroin and meth flooding the country.
Statistics do not matter, in the end, […]
“They found stacks and stacks of crisp, green U.S. $100 bills. In closets, in drawers, and suitcases. The attorney general’s office arranged the bills into a huge, bed-shaped platform, with Ben Franklin beaming from a thousand eyes. The first estimate by authorities put the take at $100 million. Then the bill-counting machines came in […]
One has to assume a diabolical mind is at work when imagining the men or women who actually take the time to develop new ways to package drugs. Do they stay up late at night figuring out how best to entice a kid to get hooked? Is it just a matter of marketing and profit? […]
When a teenager slashes their wrist, they effectively wound the entire family.
“When a child attempts suicide, emotions hit families like a Mack truck…. matter how a family deals with the aftermath of a suicide, they are forever changed by it.”
What makes teen age suicide all the more difficult for the teen and their family to […]
Before there were computers or video games or 24/7 television programming and Ipods for entertainment, there was something else responsible for providing adolescents with recreation and mental stimulation. It was called the imagination.
Where did it go and can we bring it back and what does imagination have to do with teen crisis intervention? A […]
Teenagers have a rather ridiculous perception of what their privacy rights are, and the situation is not helped by interfering judges and progressive academics who seem hell bent sometimes to relieve a parent of all their say in how their teen is raised.
Some parents, rightfully so, aren’t buying it. Some parents have been employing technology […]
Sometimes the first step in teen crisis intervention is addressing the parents themselves. If parents do not model behavior that reflects self-discipline and restraint, the troubled teen typically has no other role model that they can turn to.
It is simply not enough to blithely shrug irresponsible adult behavior off by saying ” do as I […]
“Kellan is 17 and he is determined not to become a part of the adult prison system. He counts his blessings for being a part of the River Quest program at Youth Town. He started there the day after Christmas 2006, he said.
“I had violated my probation. I had a little drug problem,” said Kellan, […]
“When the choice is clear - behave and stay with the group or misbehave and be removed - these kids make the right choice, and keep on making it.”
Referred to above are physically aggressive pre-schoolers. The writer notes that a procedure recently implemented in her day care has been effective in reducing aggressive behaviors in […]
The specter of teen age drug abuse does not end at high school graduation but follows at-risk teens, like the promise of a curse, into college.
“It hits you a lot faster when you snort it, like 10 minutes, but it doesn’t last that long,” Kim said.
This is not a troubled teen talking but a […]