I am honored to have this guest post by my friend Dustin Tibbits the executive director at New Haven RTC , a treatment facility with recovery programs for adolescent girls and young women experiencing emotional or behavioral difficulties. All I can add is Dustin has done it again, read the entire post it is very powerful. [...]
Obviously my ranting is not going to get my son / sons to change their ways. Especially with the new “18 year old” I have decided to un-plug from his world.
Now on to what is really eating at me at this time. 18 years old, for two days and I think I am going to scream. I don’t know if I am obsessing, but I feel this shift of attitude and the one event that is really getting to me is his “smoking”
Making Decisions For Our Teens Stories can have so many different endings, depending on the choices that we make throughout our lifetime and the chances we take. As an adult and parent we make choices for our family, with very little training, hoping they are the right decisions. Three years ago, my son went into [...]