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How to Help Your Child from Isolation
Children and teens may be isolating more frequently due to the restrictions and social distancing protocols from the COVID-19 pandemic....
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aaron0599
- Nov 4, 2020
- 4 min
How Can I Help Build My Child’s “Frustration Tolerance?”
We all have a “frustration tolerance,” which refers to our ability to handle setbacks and manage our emotions when we have to remain...
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aaron0599
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
How Can Creating a Routine and Schedule Help Your Kids?
Routines and schedules can help our kids and our entire family units function in a healthy way. When we create schedules, like menu plans...
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aaron0599
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
How Can We Fix Our Family System?
When one family member is struggling with addiction, our entire family system can be affected. We may be spending more time with our...
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aaron0599
- Oct 18, 2020
- 4 min
How to Find Your Strengths to Build Solutions
During recovery from drugs or alcohol, your kids might be feeling that change is too difficult or that they do not have the strength to...
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aaron0599
- Oct 11, 2020
- 4 min
The Heat of the Fire: Finding Your Motivation
Parents and teens may struggle with finding effective ways to motivate their kids or themselves to make positive changes. Troubled teens...
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aaron0599
- Oct 7, 2020
- 4 min
How Can Healthy Nutrition Help with Healing From Addiction?
Healing and recovery from addiction involve more than dealing with our mental health and emotional states. Recovery is about finding...
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aaron0599
- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
Celebrating Small Wins: The Power of the Daily Victory
When facing problematic issues with our kids, like teenage depression, we may feel like we want solutions immediately. We may have the...
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aaron0599
- Oct 4, 2020
- 4 min
How to Understand Behavior as a Form of Communication
Human behavior can be complex and difficult to understand. Problematic behavior in adolescents can be especially challenging to...
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aaron0599
- Oct 3, 2020
- 4 min
How Can You Connect with Your Child’s Pain?
Parents of troubled teens may struggle to talk with their kids about their emotional states. They may feel uncomfortable or their teen...
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aaron0599
- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
Avoiding Reactions: How to Get Out Ahead of Problems
When adolescents engage in problematic behavior, we might find ourselves managing problems as they occur. We see the issue happening or...
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aaron0599
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Is This a Crisis or Are You Being Manipulated?
Parents of troubled teens may feel as though their teen is using extreme behaviors or going into “crisis mode” as a means of...
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aaron0599
- Aug 3, 2020
- 6 min
Is Your Child Addicted to the Internet? Symptoms and Treatment
The rise and craze of smartphones, touch screen devices, video games, computer-simulated worlds, and social media has seemingly taken the...
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aaron0599
- May 29, 2020
- 6 min
3 Ways Society Impacts Behaviors and Attitudes of Teenagers
Ever since your son/daughter was little, you’ve been doing your best to protect them from the dangers of the world and equip them for it....
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aaron0599
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (And How to Treat It)
During childhood, we experience strong emotions. Even for children who are typically well-behaved, their attitudes can sometimes change...
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aaron0599
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min
Cutting and Self-Harm: Symptoms and Prevention
A 2014 study from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) reports that nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is most commonly found among...
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aaron0599
- Jan 30, 2020
- 3 min
The Truth About Teenage Addiction: Statistics Infographic
Teenagers have more addictive substances available to them than even 10 years ago. No longer are parents only worried about protecting...
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aaron0599
- Dec 17, 2019
- 5 min
Signs, Symptoms, & Causes of Teen Depression & Suicide
Are you concerned that your teenager is acting differently? Maybe their moods have changed or their actions differ than how they were...
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aaron0599
- Sep 10, 2019
- 3 min
What Is Considered Normal Teenage Behavior?
You made it through the newborn years. You survived the “terrible twos”. Now you’ve entered the teenage years and just don’t know what to...
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aaron0599
- Aug 24, 2016
- 1 min
Legal Risks Of Teen Sexting
Teens and tweens seem to be glued to their phones—surfing the Internet, engaging on social media platforms, and texting with friends. But...
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aaron0599
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
What Can I Do to Help My Child With “Entitlement” Issues?
Entitlement can be a fairly subjective term, depending upon our preconceptions and expectations. Generally speaking, entitlement refers...
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aaron0599
- Nov 10, 2020
- 4 min
The Danger of Self-Harm and Cutting
Cutting and self-harm can be dangerous behaviors when your kids are engaging in them. Self-harming behaviors can be the sign of different...
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