A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Teens Through Stress
Learn how to recognize teen stress, create emotionally safe conversations, and support your teen with healthy coping skills in this compassionate parent guide.
At Risk Youth
Many at risk youth report feeling overwhelmed and helpless. Often, young people don’t have the ability to articulate their fears and concerns. Instead, your child may be acting out because he or she feels abused, neglected or unwanted. As a parent, this behavior can make you feel confused, frustrated, unappreciated and disrespected. But remember, the adolescent brain is not yet fully developed. Young people often don’t have the vocabulary to explain their emotions, so it’s common to express how they feel through actions. The following articles will provide you with information about how to understand and assist you child.
Helping Your Teen Navigate Depression
Recognizing when a teenager has a mood disorder is tricky. Teens are notorious for dramatic mood swings, silent treatment, and withdrawing into periodic isolation. None of this is fun to be around, but it doesn’t automatically mean they are depressed. But they could be, and since early intervention is crucial, this can put parents in … Helping Your Teen Navigate Depression
6 Tips to Help Your Anxious Teen
Even before the pandemic, the number of teens with anxiety was rising. In 2019, the National Institutes of Health found that 1 out of 3 teens had an anxiety disorder. This was a 20 percent increase since 2007. Now, that ratio is higher, thanks to the events of the past two years (and counting). Not … 6 Tips to Help Your Anxious Teen
Does Your Teen Need Your Help? Pay Attention to These Signs of Depression
Teenagers often seem like aliens. Parenting a teen can leave you feeling out of sorts fairly often. There are all those moods and hormones. Then you have to factor in the latest pop culture influences you’re no longer cool enough to recognize.
THC and Your Teen: What You Need to Know
In recent years, the legalization of cannabis products has been progressing at a rapid pace. It should be no surprise that this reality has caught the eye of many teenagers. A natural compound like THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) might appeal to the curious nature or rebellious side of any young person.
5 Ways to Help Your Teen Keep Healthy Boundaries and Their Friends, Too
These days, it may feel like teenagers enjoy much less face-to-face interaction than ever. Yet, thanks to the challenges related to social media and smartphones, it’s never been harder for teens to set and keep healthy boundaries.
Like no previous era, we are all in touch 24/7. Today’s teens have never experienced what it’s like to be incommunicado. As a result, the new norm is creating an environment in which vulnerable kids can feel uncomfortable about enforcing their own need for limits and privacy.