By Jennifer Senior — 2021
Pandemic life has made us feel more insecure about the aspects of our parenting we were already most insecure about.
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What to Do After an ODD Diagnosis
If your child or teenager has a frequent and persistent pattern of anger, irritability, arguing, defiance or vindictiveness toward you and other authority figures, he or she may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).
Adolescence is the perfect storm for relationships between teen boys and their parents, but they are more vulnerable than they seem.
Teens want honesty from adults just as adults crave the truth from teens. If we both want the same thing, why is it so hard to get there?
When your child becomes a teenager, your parenting role begins to shift. You may find yourself becoming more of a guide rather than a rule-maker or teacher. That’s not to say your child won’t need you to intervene when there are safety issues or that your teen won’t need consequences.
Having ASD increases the risk of depression in teens, but effective treatments are available
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Many teens get into trouble because of an inability to appropriately discharge feelings of intense anger. Teens become angry for various reasons and express these feelings in a multitude of ways, but all have in common the struggle of experiencing a painful emotion and not knowing how to manage it.
Flares and flashes. Outbursts and eruptions. The words used to describe anger tend to be volcanic. And science may explain why.