Before technology was the phenomenon that it is today, when kids were getting cell phones that weren’t even smart, many parents were worried. The AOL generation was growing up connected to the web and patterns of ADHD, technology addiction, as well as other problems were developing. Now we are faced with generations who will not…
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Relapse is what happens when someone in recovery loses his ability to say “no” to picking up a drink or a drug again. Whether it is one hit, one drink, one day, or one year, relapse happens when a child abandons his program of recovery. It is said that relapse is a process that happens…
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Our kids are glued to their phones every moment that they can be, unless we have enacted strict digital device rules and regulations in our households. Without parental controls programmed into their phones, there is little control that we have over what our children watch. Until our children talk to us about what they are…
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If you’re the parent of a child anywhere between the ages of 7-17, there’s a chance you’ve caught your kid flashing a sign with their hands that looks like an M. You might have heard catch phrases coming out of their mouth like “savage,” “dent the universe,” or “be a maverick.” Your kids might have…
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When a parent catches a child in an elaborate lie there is at least one split second where the parent may be thinking two distinct things. First, a parent is probably angry with the child for lying and going to such great lengths to perpetuate the lie. Second, somewhere deep within, the parent may even…
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Parents of teens can have it rough. Hormones, social pressures, academic pressures, and a changing identity can leave teens moody, demanding, rude, restless, irritable, and discontent. Bring drugs and alcohol into the equation and parents are faced with an even tougher challenge. Drugs and alcohol change the way a teen regulates their emotions entirely, altering…
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Mindfulness is a term we come to hear often when our adolescent or teenage male is in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. In the last few years, mindfulness has become a sweeping trend in the United States and around the world. Popular smartphone apps like Headspace have made the practice of mindfulness and mindful…
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Addiction can bring out the worst in our children. Drugs and alcohol are mind altering substances which change the structure of the brain. If our children already have a tendency toward emotional hysterics, their abuse of drugs and alcohol, as well as the habits they develop, can exacerbate those emotional episodes. Emotional manipulation is a…
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Recovery can be defined as “a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength” as well as “the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost.” Recovery is not defined as “a cure for drug and alcohol addiction ensuring total immunity from relapse.” For that reason, your child…
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Teenagers love their smartphones. Most parents of modern teenagers know that the majority of the time teens are checking their phones, engaging with apps on their phones, talking to friends on their phones, listening to music on their phones, or frantically searching for their phones because it has been absent too long. Millennials and generations…
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