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Challenges with Teens



Caring for teens brings new challenges. As our children’s needs and desires change, parenting strategies that worked before are often no longer as effective. Whether it is the common struggle over homework, chores, and practice for extracurriculars or a more significant behavioral and emotional challenge, we’re often on the lookout to understand what support would be best for these developing adults.

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The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life

In today’s achievement culture, many girls seem to be doing remarkably well—excelling in honors and sports and attending top colleges in ever greater numbers—but beneath the surface, girls are stressed out and stretched too thin as they strive to be “perfect.

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Seven Tips for Parenting Teen Boys: 'Nagging Them Is Like Shouting into a Void'

Adolescence is the perfect storm for relationships between teen boys and their parents, but they are more vulnerable than they seem.

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Child and Teen Panic Disorder

Children and teens with Panic Disorder experience unexpected and repeated panic attacks. This is typically followed by at least one month of concern about having additional attacks and/or a fear of something bad happening because of the panic attack (such as going crazy, losing control, or dying).

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Fire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens

A fifteen-year-old boy is walking through a swirling fog on his way to school when a voice calls out, "Come here. We need to talk." Out of the mist emerges an old man with a white beard. He is a fantastic figure, as wizardly as Merlin, as wise as Socrates, as peaceful as Buddha.

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Preserving Intimacy with Your Child When Adolescence Begins

Parents often experience less closeness with the teenager than with the child.

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Daniel Siegel: The Teenage Brain

Daniel Siegel debunks myths about the Teenage Brain and “raging hormones.” He discusses the changes and remodeling of the brain within the adolescent period. He asserts that people need to learn about these changes to support and meet adolescents with empathy and compassion.

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Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection

For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But nearly five million young people—or a stunning 11.

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How to Help Today's Perfectionist Girls Love Themselves

By linking their value to approval from others, they are searching outside of themselves in order to feel good and worthy.

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The Teenage Brain Is Primed for Addiction

We tend to think of addiction as an adult problem, but drug abuse starts, overwhelmingly, in adolescence.

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The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions

Daisaku Ikeda, who offers spiritual leadership to 12 million Soka Gakkai Buddhists throughout the world, responds to the complicated issues facing American young people in a straightforward question-and-answer format.

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