How to raise well adjusted teens
1. Keep the lines of communication open. Talk often. 2. Raise a child that feels valued, respected, and loved. 3. Pay attention to what is going on in your child's life. 4. Recognize the warning signs for drug/alcohol use, depression, and future violence. Take action, if necessary, rather than slipping into denial. 5. Encourage participation in extra-curricular activities. 6. Set reasonable limits and boundaries then enforce them in a fair manner. 7. SPEND TIME WITH YOUR teen. 8. Seek professional help for your teen if you think it is necessary. Following these guidelines won't necessarily guarantee a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted teen, but you can bet it's a good start.


Understanding and Parenting Adolescents - Virtual Teacher Aide
This factsheet considers the psychological task of adolescence, explains the adolescent's separation from his/her parents, and gives child and parent checklists for ...


Class aids parenting kids with mental health issues
Shasta County NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is offering a free class to parents and caregivers of children and adolescents living with a mental health condition.


Parenting Teens - Parent Advice for Raising Your Teen
Parenting teens advice with over 2000 parent and teen advice articles, parenting tips, an updated parenting blog and an active community of parents of teenagers. Tips ...


Dealing with Teen Issues
Teens undoubtedly have a way of conjuring up a whole new set of challenges for parents. New issues and crises seem to present themselves consistently and often without warning. Some of the more common issues that parents of teenagers must learn to deal with include such problems as eating disorders, substance use and abuse, defiance, and promiscuity (to name a few).


Do you get your musical taste from your parents? - Business Insider

Do you get your musical taste from your parents? Business Insider In this article, the continuity in music taste from parents to their children is discussed via a multi-actor design. In our models music preferences of 325 adolescents and both their parents were linked, with parental and adolescent educational level ...

Rockwood School District offers parenting class
The Rockwood Drug-Free Coalition will offer "Guiding Good Choices," a five-session parenting class for families with adolescents and teens ages 9-14.


NY town still baffled by teens' mysterious tics - CNN International

NY town still baffled by teens' mysterious tics CNN International All of the teens attend LeRoy Junior-Senior High School, so the attention has turned there. School officials say everything is safe, but environmental organizations and some parents aren't so sure. Activist Erin Brockovich is investigating whether ... and more »