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Never Give Up Parenting a Difficult Teen If you're dealing with a wayward teen you know how relationally fatigued, emotionally beaten up, and personally worn down you can get. In fact, you may right now be thinking, "I've been pushing against this wall foreverI just can't do it anymore."... ( added 16 days 9 hours ago.)

Step-Parenting Teenagers Step-parents can take it very personally when a step-child seemingly rejects them. It's hard for them to understand how a child they helped raise could so suddenly become hateful, mean, and angry. But I've found that to be quite common phenomenon... ( added 282 days 1 hour ago.)

Troubled Teen Warning Signs Based on my 30 years of experience of working with troubled teenagers, I've compiled this list of warning signs that a parent should for indicting that the teen needs professional help: Your teen is... 1. Increasingly becoming disrespectful... ( added 298 days 13 hours ago.)

10 Ways to Rebuild A Relationship With Your Teen A busy, stressed-out parent can often react in ways that don't always convey unconditional love. If this sounds like you, maybe you need to work on mending your relationship before it is destroyed altogether. Consider implementing some of these... ( added 1 year 91 days ago.)

Rulemaking Versus Ruling Your Home Some parents mix the idea of rulemaking with ruling their home. Reasonable rulemaking and proper boundaries will help a teenager mature into a confident adult, while living under a "ruler" can lead to frustration, rebellion and eroded self-esteem.... ( added 1 year 281 days ago.)

Can Senseless Shootings Be Prevented? I believe that most young people who go on a shooting rampage in malls or schools, do so because of a combination of two things: hopelessness for their current situation and a sense of abandonment by others. It's an attempt to "pay back" mankind... ( added 1 year 322 days ago.)

Boot Camp or Boarding School? When a teenager is spinning out of contriol, parents may have no choice but to place their troubled teen in a program away from home. They'll need to consider the difference between a boarding school, a boarding school with a therapeutic focus or... ( added 2 years 167 days ago.)

About Teens and Cutting The Phenomenon of Teens Cutting Themselves What's this All About? Kids and Cutting Fifteen years ago, a young lady who was living with us came to the dining room table with her face all cut up, bleeding, looking shameful and embarrassed, and... ( added 2 years 179 days ago.)

Disciplining Your Teen My concept of discipline, like so many other people, was formed from my childhood. If you did something against the rules, you were disciplined. That discipline was usually corporal. Pretty simple. Don't do anything bad, and you won't get nailed.... ( added 2 years 180 days ago.)

A Look at Adoption, People need to consider some things before they adopt, especially in regard to the issues that many adopted kids have in the teenager years. Am I against adoption? No. But I do know that out of 2,500 kids that have lived with us at Heartlight... ( added 2 years 180 days ago.)