Troubled Teens Resources

“What can Tara learn at a troubled teen boarding school that she can’t learn here?”,the mother asked.

“Apparently something other than running away,” retorted the husband.

Jan sighed. Arguments raged in their house 24/7 over her older sister Tara. It was always about Tara. But Jan just called Tara a drama queen. A brat. She felt Tara was manipulating the whole family, milking her drug addiction for all it was worth.

More than once Jan wondered what good did it do her to get good grades and act responsibly when the screw-up got all the love.

The voice of an untroubled teen, sibling of a troubled teen. It’s a thankless task to be the “good kid” if the bad kid gets it all.

Parent have a great deal to juggle when dealing with a troubled teen. The care and attention to other siblings often suffer, as do marriages themselves.

Jan and Tara’s parents argued constantly about sending Tara through a teen behavioral program or enrolling her in a boarding school but Jan’s mother thought that sending her daughter for help would be admitting that she couldn’t help her herself.

It is so very important that parents of drug addicted teens do not make their troubled teens problems about themselves. By the time a teen is addicted and acting out, it’s a bit irrelevant to assign blame and extremely destructive to be in denial.

Removing a troubled teen from a home with younger siblings can often be the best strategy a family can employ in order to ultimately be healed. Enrolling your out-of-control teen in a teen boarding school places them in the care of qualified and trained professionals. Parents sometimes forget that being a parent doesn’t qualify them to be a therapist.