Preparing your teen to leave home part 1 asked you to make a list of the skills that made a self-sufficient young adult and then over time and beginning early asked you to begin teaching your teen these skills. How far did you get? Did you think about the list? Make the list? Did you [...]
The prom king and queen are popular and everyone wants to be their friend, but what happens when making friends is not that easy? What if you are shy like the celebrities Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Robert Dinero or even Jim Carey who were all shy when they were kids? Some of them are still shy. [...]
A true sign of having a teen is their desire to socialize more with their friends and less with you, their parent. It is as though being a teen drained all the cool from your body. Never fear, you’re still cool, and they are just learning to, let’s say, appreciate you differently. A common mistake [...]
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 you do? Maybe [...]
