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Get practical parenting advice to help your child through adolescence. Articles and tips from experts in the field of child development and psychology. Learn about common parenting challenges on topics including communicating and motivating your teen, dealing with substance abuse, and coping with emotional or behavioral issues.
Breaking Parent and Teen Denial 
When a parent or teen is in denial about addiction, it is for a reason. Below are some of the main motivations for denial and how you can challenge any beliefs that might prevent your child from getting into recovery.
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What Is Tough Love?
Although TOUGHLOVE ® is firmly rooted in psychological principles, it does not conduct therapy sessions. Rather, groups are parent-run and offer support to members as they determine and apply individual boundaries and limits to their children.
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10 Tips for Raising Children of Character
It is one of those essential facts of life that raising good children--children of character--demands time and attention. While having children may be “doing what comes naturally,” being a good parent is much more complicated.
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All I Do Is Nag, Nag, Nag
Parents often engage in nagging techniques because they need their child to do something and because they believe their persistent requests, demands, reminders, and threats of negative consequences will influence them to do what they want. It's really important to understand how nagging affects everyone involved.
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At Risk Youth
At Risk Youth strives to provide troubled adolescents and their parents with valuable information pertaining to issues that face today’s youth. This site includes information about adolescents and the issues that they may be struggling with, including substance abuse, defiance, violence, weight management, learning disabilities, eating disorders, and other behavioral and emotional issues. At Risk Youth strives to provide parents with advice about effective treatment options.
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Is This Bad Attitude Really ODD?
ODD, oppositional defiant disorder, is defined by therapists as a cluster of behaviors that include specific characteristics, which can be a particularly frustrating disorder, because your adolescent generally believes he or she has just cause to be so angry.
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MyChildToday.com
MyChildToday.com offers advice for parents of babys, toddlers, tweens, and teens. They are a resource for parents with tips and articles about your child from toys, games and clothes to common issues for effective parenting.
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Parenting a Child Newly Diagnosed With ADHD
Your task as a parent is to start building a comparable home structure that will create and support a way of life that rewards your child for consistent behavior. Recovery from ADHD means learning new skills and replacing old behaviors for all family members.
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Parenting Tips from Dr. Phil
The Dr. Phil show features such topics as family, how to raise your children to be outstanding adults, and creating healthy family relationships. Dr. Phil has chosen programs like Copper Canyon Academy, Youth Care, SUWS, Passages to Recovery, and NorthStar Center to help treat troubled teens.
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Parents Reduce Risky Driving by Teens
The Checkpoints Program’s central feature is a written agreement that parents and teens sign. The agreement limits teens’ driving under conditions that place them at increased risk for a crash. A supporting video and periodic newsletters explain the risks that new drivers face and reinforce the need for parents to limit their newly licensed teens’ driving under these risky conditions.
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Raising Good Citizens
This article from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine will help you teach your children the "3 Rs" of good citizenship: Respect, Responsibility, and Resourcefulness.
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Raising Happy Kids
Your job as a parent is to encourage and support your kids during their journeys toward self-respect and happiness. Learn how to raise happy kids with this article from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.
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Re-establish Communication with Your Teen
When’s the last time you and your teen really talked? If you can’t remember, then it’s time to re-establish communication and rebuild a strong relationship with your son or daughter. It’s not too late to start now.
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Successful Parenting
Being a parent is an adventure. It's one of the most fulfilling and rewarding experiences in life – and one of the toughest. Even the most conscientious parent can feel overwhelmed when faced with unexpected challenges. New help is available in the form of an easy-to-read booklet from the NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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Supporting Your Teen
Supporting Your Adolescent: Tips for Parents was developed for the Family and Youth Services Bureau from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Administration for Children and Families; and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Teaching Values
Here are two good ways to convey to your children the importance of values such as compassion, respect for others, and honesty. Learn about teaching values with this article from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.
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Teen Drug Help
One of the most telling signs of a teen's increasing involvement with drugs is when drug use becomes part of the teen's daily life. Preoccupation with drugs can crowd out previously important activities, and the manner in which the teen views him or her self may change in unrealistic and inaccurate directions. Learn more about talking to teens about drug abuse and addiction.
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Teen Drug Help
Teen Drug Help offers information on drugs and addiciton so parents can learn about ways to help their children.
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Teenagers and the Internet
Most parents forget the cardinal rule when it comes to children and computers: they put the computer in the bedroom rather than in a common area, and lose their strongest defense against problematic use of the Internet. If you suspect your child has been using the Internet in an inappropriate manner, moving the computer into an area where they cannot hide their activities can help curb the temptation to break the rules.
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Teens and Lying
Most parents know that angry feeling they get when they realize their teen is lying to them, but the child will simply not admit it when caught. If you are sure your child is lying, however, it is important to deal with the situation immediately by finding out why your teen feels compelled to be dishonest, discussing your feelings about the importance of trust and honest communication, and by making clear the consequences your teenager will face if you catch him or her lying in the future.
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The National Character Education Centers
The National Character Education Centers mission is to develop value driven respectful and responsible people by offering a clear model for reference points for each of the 7 core ethical virtues in our program.
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Whatever Happened to Manners?
Recent reports find that eight out of every ten Americans believes that lack of respect and courtesy is a serious national problem, and six in ten said the problem is getting worse. Judith Martin, the New York Post etiquette columnist known as “Miss Manners,” believes that the breakdown of courtesy in our country has reached dangerous levels.
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Why Is My Teen Sleeping So Much?
Your once punctual child has become a perpetually tardy teenager. What’s wrong with her? Chances are, your teenager is not getting enough sleep. Find ways to help your teen get the sleep they need.
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COPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.
EXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.
