It's pretty rare for a child to never be naughty. Make that extremely rare and parents who see their son or daughter misbehaving should not panic. All kids are naughty at some time or another. But if that behavior becomes really bad and starts to impact on the family, it may well be time to consider finding some help for your situation. One such form of help is a boot camp.

Now the term boot camp may conjure up all sorts of frightening images of young kids on route marches...

There are two decisions faced by the parents of a troubled teen. Should I send my kid to a boot camp? If I do send my kid to a boot camp, which boot camp will it be?

Now the first question is usually much easier than the second. If your son or daughter is in trouble, if they are losing interest in school and their grades are falling or if they are mixing with the wrong crowd and need some strong discipline in their life then yes, your child most probably needs to go to a boot...

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The holiday destination and duration is a mutual decision – it’s a way for everyone to relax over a period of time, so if you don’t know where to go, ask your teens because they may have some ideas. You don’t want it to turn into a ‘what parents say goes, whether you like it or not’ because it has
the potential to ruin the entire mood of the trip. My coaching client friend’s son actually knew a friend who’s parents had a...

Today’s teenagers have been stereotyped as adventurous and harebrained individuals.  They are generally fond of experimenting with things until they get in touch with drugs, sex, guns, alcohol among others. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, 16,000 young adults die each year from unintentional injuries and accidents.  The most common justification for teenagers’ care-free attitude is that their brains just aren’t...

Alcoholism among teenagers is one of the most serious problems of modern society. Teenage alcoholism is the product of immoderate and accelerating use of alcohol in adolescents and young adults.  A great number of our teenagers are facing problems of enormous drinking.

One of the trademarks of today’s teenagers is their sense of adventurism which may backfire once it goes unchecked. Most teenagers are very interested in experimentations or merely trying something new....

CNN published a news report recently about a Muslim teenager from Ohio who was threatened by her father because she converted to Christianity.

The teen claims her father wants her dead after she changed her religion. She is just 17 years of age and she ran away from her family and took refuge in another city under the guardianship of a judge.

This has raised concern among activist groups who advocate the freedom of religion. They claim that the girl is old enough to make the...

Every teen needs to belong or feel recognized by his or her own age group. Teens feel they need to conform to peer group norms and values. This is a normal behavior because teens want to be with people of their own age. At the onset of adolescence, children start to spend a lot of their time with friends than their family. The risk is that they are more susceptible to the influence of their peers. It is an accepted fact that peers can have a strong influence whether positively or...

The history of toys goes back as far as the history of man himself. Primitive dolls, representing infants, animals, and soldiers, have been found at archaeological sites in different parts of the world. Toys excavated from the Indus Valley civilisation (3000-1500 BC), include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy animals.

The earliest toys were made from materials found in nature, such as rocks, sticks, and clay. Thousands of years ago, children in Egypt played with...

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It's all about parents learning how to help their adolescents develop into their FULL POTENTIAL in every aspect, to become joyful, thriving...

Since pretty much everyone has a cell phone these days, there is going to be a time that you receive a phone call while driving, or even an email and a text. While I do talk on the phone with a headset occasionally in the car, texting and checking email should not happen.

Saying that texting or reading while driving is unsafe, is an understatement. Thousands of lives are lost each and every day when a distracted driver rear ends someone or they cross the center lane on a divided...