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I visited my therapist yesterday, with two teens in the house, there is usually some issue going on between one or the other to disucss. At times I feel we are somewhat dysfunctional and should have a family meeting. But at the same time I do not feel like I had the tools to facilitate a productive meeting.
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Most families with teens would benefit from some kind of “family therapy”. Teens will begin to isolate from their families at the age of 14. This is natural, but if the communication divide gets wider and wider, arguments begin to take place and the communication breakdown becomes hard to repair. My 14 soon to be 15 year old son spends countless hours in his room, very little time at the dinner table and talks primarily when spoken to. Sometimes he will choose to offer information but not very often. He is not confrontational and when we ask him to do something he may, sigh but usually follows through. So far my gut tells me life with him is still manageable for us.
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Each morning, these past weeks, as I am driving my son to school, I get the aching reminder about our economy when I hear the bells and the radio announcer reports another day of the stock market plunging. At our house we are feeling the pinch of this economic crisis and I personally question the [...]
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Most therapeutic boarding schools allow “weekly check in phone calls” from the student to their parents without the therapist. Some schools may have two short phone calls and others one long phone call a week. A long call is approximately 20 minutes, which is not much time but can be endless when the conversation is [...]
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Today is a day of celebration. My son has decided to break his silence; it had been over three weeks since he last talked to us. He broke the ice, it was on his terms and he sounded relieved to talk. At the end of our phone conversation, we all exchanged expressions of love. RTC [...]
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It is the end of the week, and I am mentally exhausted. This is consistantly what it feels like to have a teen in an RTC, there truly is never a great week. When they are doing well - you miss them and anxing over the preparations for a home visit. When they are NOT doing well – [...]
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