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This current NYT article, gives the grim picture of many of the youth today that are not lucky enough to have a home to live in or move back to. These are the homeless youth that are the future of our nation and as adults will end up in the system if we do not do something about it. They learn how to live on the street and survive, to young to get a hotel room, sign a lease and in many cases get a job, they are not kids and they are not adults.
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This week at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco they interviewed a teen panel on what is cool and what they want on the internet. The video is very cute, but if you don’t want to watch the full 34 minutes fast forward to the end. Sometimes I wonder how they pick they kids [...]
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When I wake up in the morning it is dark and at night the sun is down by 6:00 pm. The mornings and evenings are getting cold, middle of the day is not bad. Last week we had a major rain storm. My son left for Wilderness Therapy the end of May, not a bad [...]
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In Italy there is a segment of the parent population that is doing the same thing, and I think it has been going on for generations. I am from Italian descent and have watched my father, an over 85 year old man, still glorifying his mother and still crying over her death. I have often wondered where this comes from and the observation has lived with me for years as I watched my Italian relatives interact. This may be where I become overly worried and anxiety ridden over my kids future. Is this the nuturing instinct that never dies?
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I just learned today that teens or people 18-22 years old are in “nowhere land” when it comes to mental health. They no longer fit with the high school teen groups and they are not appropriate for the adult groups. We had this same problem when my son was 11 and 12 years old. He [...]
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Less than two weeks later the ball drops, I receive an email from one of the staff at the RTC “Are you aware that your son brought in drugs and gave them to some of our kids?” One sentence, guilty, without proven innocent, there was no doubt in those words that my son had done the damage.
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One of my sons is a sophomore in high school and I would say currently lacks motivation when it comes to school or any related activity that may help him toward a positive future lifestyle. His main motivation seems to be hanging out with his friends and skateboarding. I often read in our local newspaper [...]
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