When a beloved child brings addiction into the home, the home can be torn apart. The fault is not on behalf of our child. We learn that addiction is a disease, one that happens to our child and robs them of the ability to make healthy, proactive decisions. As our child might fight for their…
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Parenting a teenage boy in the height of an addiction to drugs and/or alcohol can be a nightmare. When your teenager enters recovery, everything changes, for the better. You will have more meaningful conversations than you ever have Adolescent and teenage boys who go through treatment experience for recovery from drug and alcohol addiction develop…
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Leadership can be defined as “the action of leading a group of people or an organization”. To lead can be defined as to “be in charge or command of” or to “be superior to”. Parents have a conflicting role as leaders in their children’s lives. A parent is expected to lead the way but also…
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“…’Boys will be boys’ is a logical tautology: It is always true,” writes The Good Men Project contributor Paul Harzer. “This is true semantically, but we don’t function solely in the realm of semantics. Semantics involves the precise definition of what words mean, while pragmatics refers to what people intend to communicate beyond the base…
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Parents are as disgruntled and aware as teens are of how early in the morning school starts. While teens are hitting the snooze button over and over or sleeping straight through the alarm, parents are cursing the fact that they have to wake up extra early for work in order to get their kid to…
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Boys do not process information the same way that girls do, especially as teenagers. Parents are all too familiar with the scenario: trying to talk to a teenage boy who seems to listen, only to realize they have heard nothing. Teenage boys are more prone to tuning out voices to which they have become habituated.…
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Addiction and substance abuse in children, teenagers, and adolescents is not always obvious. Behavioral signs can indicate that something is off with a beloved child and quickly reveal that substances are playing a part. Loss of interest Passion and a vertigo of focus are common characteristics of children. A child who has found their passion…
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Over 1,400 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 were studied for a massive research effort on the part of the Brain Foundation of the Netherlands, conducted by Leiden University and other academic participants. A longitudinal study, which is too rare when it comes to studying the effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain,…
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Depression in children, teenagers, and adolescents is similar to depression in adults. Problematically, mood and emotional changes in younger people are often overlooked because adults think depression in youth is not the same as depression in adulthood. However, depression can be severe and elevate the risk for substance abuse. Hopelessness and sadness are two of…
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You clean everything out. You search every corner of the house. You put locks on medicine cabinets and liquor cabinets. Time after time, your kid continues to find drugs and alcohol. Here are some of the most common places your kid is making their discovery. Your medicine cabinet Most kids find drugs at home through…
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