It would be great to think that once your teen has completed a recovery program discussed in the last post, that they were never going to abuse drugs again, but this is usually not the case. The recovery or return to the original state of sobriety is fragile and must be tended to on a [...]
If there are enough red flags to make you worry about whether your teen is using drugs, then you should call for help. Your teen on drugs is not your teen. Your teen on drugs does not have the beautiful smile and kind heart you remember. This is your teen on drugs. You can’t love your teen to [...]
Do you think you have a better idea of when to ask for help about your teen’s drug use? If you guessed early, you’d be right. The sooner the better since the longer a teen misuses drugs the harder it is to reverse the addiction or dependence. Sometimes you need a professional to help make [...]
So you ask your teen about drug use. Now what? Let’s say your teen tells you that they have been smoking pot (marijuana) with friends after school. They have done ecstasy on a few occasions, but nothing regular. They don’t think this is a big deal. After all, it’s just pot. Now what do [...]
“Can you drug test my teen?” This is the action plan that parents often come up with when they suspect their teen is using drugs of abuse. There are several steps to take before your teen is drug tested. This is especially important since most drugs will leave the system in a day. Few will [...]
Michael Jackson History This week was the memorial service for the great entertainer, Michael Jackson. It is possible that we learned more about Mr. Jackson this week than ever before. He was in the Guinness book of world records for several records broken, has been the celebrity to have donated the most money to charities and the [...]
Parent: “How was school today?” Teen: “Fine.” Sometimes this is the way conversations go with teens. As a parent, you can get frustrated and stop asking. “If you don’t want to talk then I will stop asking.” A parent can’t really do this. Teens need a connection to others. This is the reason for their [...]
He told me his Dad died of a heart attack a year ago. He was doing fine and chuckled that he knew it seemed like everyone he was close to had died, but he really was doing well now. On the day his father died, he had not done so well and never imagined he [...]
“No.” I know how much this means to you, but, “No.” Giving someone everything they want does not make them love you more. It also does not make them ever stop asking for the next thing, or consider that the next thing should be more, shall we say, reasonable. No, the requests simply gets more [...]
Congratulations, you’re the parent of a teen. It’s now time to start letting go. Obviously, you are still going to be there for your teen, but they really have to start doing things for themselves in order to get the practice they need BEFORE they leave home. Prepare to make a list In [...]
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