How is school? Never settle for a half answer. If school is going well, your teen is doing okay even great. School is a good way of taking the emotional temperature of your teen. So when school is not going well, be concerned and become investigative rather than accusatory. 1. Grades They are what [...]
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 [...]
Their continuous use has nothing to do with their love for you.
