Just last week we had an interesting situation with one of my son’s friends parent. This “parent” is out of control, she is a single Mom and her son is the Alpha. In my opinion for years she has wanted to be her sons “friend”.
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High School
Today I have the pleasure of meeting my youngest sons probation officer. He has been picked up twice for drinking, I have already spent two days crying about how I have gone wrong and now I have accepted that he is on his own path. As you can imagine a teen that is having trouble [...]
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Lessons for Parents: Responding to Bad Grades I receive an email today from the Insider’s Club of the Love and Logic Institute. Sometimes I read them but most of the time they go in my trash, but today’s subject really spoke to me, “Responding to Bad Grades”. We have an ongoing battle in our house [...]
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It appears my son will graduate from high school or finish all his credits by the middle of next month. I am not celebrating yet, because we all know with troubled teens anything can happen in the wink of an eye. Right now he is on the path of having all his units completed. How [...]
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I don’t want you to think that I am neglecting my blog. Actually it is quite the opposite, for those of you that do not know me, by profession I am a website designer / search engine marketer. Surprising? Most likely not. There has been a lot going on in the past year in web [...]
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Photo by: Christina House / For The Times Miracles do happen and at USC (University of Southern California) on Saturday 12/13/08, 170 at-risk teens, including young mothers, juvenile camp inmates, troubled students were awarded their high school diplomas and congratulated by keynote speaker Magic Johnson. Teens prove adversity doesn’t have to impede education What a [...]
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Milestones are being met in our son’s residential treatment care, long milestones, if I may add. The one year marker at his current facility is next week and I feel a vast difference in my son’s engagement in the program and in his life. He knows that we are talking about transition the end of [...]
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