Living with a child who is living with addiction can come to mean that every minute of every hour of every day is lived in a proactive fear. You fear that the worst is coming. You fear that the best will never come. You fear that as the parent to your child, you have failed…
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Some children are born with a natural passion. As if they knew when they were born what they were meant to do with their lives, they are naturally talented or inclined toward a hobby. Children might find a passion for sports, the arts, or music at a young age. Other videos may be empathetically inclined…
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Teenagers face tremendous pressure in each avenue of their lives. Without healthy outlets, willing ears from parents, and time to just simply be teenagers. Teens can take on physical stress as well as mental stress which can lead them to maladaptive coping behaviors. Striving to maintain all of their pressures, drugs, alcohol, and other forms…
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Bouncing knees. Squirming in their seat. Tapping their toes. Tapping their fingers. Tapping their pencil. Looking one direction then abruptly looking another direction with an audible sigh. Fidgeting. Asking to get up. Losing focus in class. Getting reprimanded for not listening. Getting disciplined for not doing something the right way. Getting scolded for being too…
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Michael Potegal explains to The New York Times that a temper tantrum is made up of anger and what he calls ‘distress’ or ‘sadness plus’. “In studies of typically developing children, anger is most likely shown at the beginning of a tantrum, and then declines, while distress behaviors tend to be pretty constant throughout,” the…
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Over half of parents in a report produced by Common Sense Media in 2017 believe that their teens are “addicted” to their digital devices, especially their mobile ones. Typically, teenagers aren’t quick to agree with their parents, especially when it comes to something their brain prefers. The teenage brain is still developing in the frontal…
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In 2015 more people died from overdose on opioid drugs tan they did from car crashes and gun violence combined. Estimations for 2016 were at 64,000 individuals as of September of 2017. Over 20,000 individuals died as a result of Fentanyl overdose, a synthetic opioid considered to be nearly 100 times more potent than morphine.…
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In 2015, the Journal of Youth and Adolescence published a study that examined over 200 parents and their teenage children. Researchers sought to understand where communication gets lost between a parent and a teen leading to a growing amount of aggression on both sides. Teens don’t feel understood. Due to changing hormones and a developing…
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The brain is in a constant stage of development until about the age of 25. For some time there has been controversy as to whether or not marijuana use can harm the development of the brain during adolescent and teenage years. An increasing amount of neuroscience and brain imaging studies has been able to confirm…
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Kids today are consumed by their digital devices. Parents joke about the “good old days” when there wasn’t a television, there weren’t video games, and as a child, there certainly wasn’t a phone in their pocket. Recent controversies overseas revealed that video game companies designing games for kids were intentionally making them addictive. Whether they…
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