Who’re you into? Guys? Girls? Both? Or are ya undecided? I ask because I want to make sure I tailor my clinic interaction to the teen in my clinic room. More and more the answer is often something like undecided or bi? There’re some very noncommittal teens out there who are taking their time to [...]
Why is it so hard for a long distance relationship to work? Patterns. The distance doesn’t allow your teen to see the patterns that teach them how to deal with that person. Patterns or the occurrence of one person having a behavior and the other person learning what that behavior means can really only occur [...]
There are expectations that your teen thinks they’re supposed to meet. They should do this or they should look like that. It can be overwhelming at times. The expectation of what they think they’re supposed to do when they start to develop who they are is what others think of them. Your teen’s sense of [...]
The toughest decision you have to make about your teen is whether to override their sense of free will; to take their power away to make choices for themselves. You do this with grounding or other disciplinary action and it can be hard to make the decision sometimes no matter how much of a hard [...]
As you well know I work with teens and well, let me just say that kids aren’t the only ones who say the darndest things. These are the best five things I’ve heard over the past six months! 5. I thought I was already pregnant so I didn’t use birth control the last time I [...]
The basic psyche of the average teen is one of selfishness. It’s me-me, me-me, MEEEE! This is really normal and yes some people NEVER seem to outgrow it. Your teen controls their desire to be too selfish by your limit setting and discipline. This means when you say, “No” to something you aren’t just being [...]
You know that feeling you get when your boss wants to chat with you on a Monday morning? That’s the same one your teen can feel when you suddenly walk in to have a chat with them. Know why? They get this feeling for the same reason you get this feeling; You know your boss [...]
