Training in Positive Thinking May Help Anxious Teens – iVillage. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom found that training youth to bring a bias toward either positive or negative interpretations of unclear social situations could influence how the teens felt about those interactions and their subsequent mood. Read More http://www.ivillage.com/training-positive-thinking-may-help-anxious-teens/4-a-364796#ixzz1S6i7w6lk
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Here is the latest breaking story. It seems to get better and better or is it worse and worse. My son, as you may or may not know is once again living on the streets and has upgraded to a tent. I am not going to repeat my story, since it gets so repetitive, read the past [...]
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I wanted to share with you an article in today’s Wall Street Journal “Want My Advice? Um, Not Really”, it is about conversations between parents (Boomers) and Generation Y – now ages 16-32. This is the age range of my kids, my youngest is 16, then 18 and the oldest is turning 25 next week.
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I know those last three words, “I love you” is the glue that holds the relationship together and I don’t want to lose. I have come to believe for some reason my journey is to help these troubled teens get through this difficult time in their life. To keep my sanity while I am doing it.
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Once again it seems girls tend do better than the boys when it comes to adversity. According to a new study females are 4 times more resilient than males in overcoming adverse experiences. This is a study of very high risk teens who have been exposed to two or more of adverse events such as [...]
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This is a list of how my son existed and was able to exist for five nights without a phone or money as a teen runaway. While he was gone we were constantly speculating how he was able to exist, where he may be living and what he might be doing. He was actually more prepared [...]
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As you read this blog know there are many families like you out there, through TroubleTeenBlog.com we are creating a community of love and support for families with teens in treatment. Below is a post from a parent that admitted her son last week. Not easy to do and from her remarks it sounds like [...]
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We are on the second to the last day of a 5 day home visit, and an amazing visit it has been. Sometimes I have to pinch myself I cannot believe the positive changes my son has made and that he has come back to life, earth, this planet. Which he was not part of [...]
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