Sometimes you wonder if public schools ought to consider implementing some of the programs employed at schools for troubled teens. Listen to a description of Tipton Academy’s “cognitive self change”. Surely the lesson has value beyond the walls of institutions that work with troubled teens. It is a prescription for how to avoid becoming one.
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Sometimes parents don’t know where to turn. Teen age drug abuse, binge drinking, steroids, violence, internet addiction. Raising teenagers anymore is like going to war. And now some towns and school districts are taking the war directly to the parents, demanding that they do their part.
“Underage drinking is not new, but school districts seem […]
Troubled teens constantly harp about how they want to be trusted and treated more like adults. So it is ironic to read about the many colleges that have been forced to establish stringent controls on alcohol consumption on campus. It is because incoming students appear to still need about as much teen crisis intervention as […]