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 [...]
“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.
It is important that we are aware of how important our words are to our teens and not take their “whatever” attitude towards us as a sign that we can say whatever we want to them without it hurting who they become as adults.
parenting, communication, teen
