Talk With Your Teen About Peer Pressure This Summer
By Tammy Walsh for Dr. Barbara Greenberg Have you talked with your teen about peer pressure lately? If not, this summer may …
The Audrie Pott Settlement & The Importance of Repair Work
I was on the news in 2012 discussing the premature and tragic death of Audrie Pott. I was horrified by what had …
Blaise Brooks: Three Ways to Help Your Teen Resist Peer Pressure
Please welcome my guest blogger, Blaise Brooks, as she discusses how to help teens resist peer pressure! -Dr. Barbara Greenberg Your teen goes …
Powdered Caffeine: A Dangerous Drug
I’m constantly following teen trends not only because I work with teens all week long and am concerned about their safety, but …
Public Child Abuse: Why and What?
Elizabeth Ann Wolfe, 38-year-old mother, was arrested after she allegedly beat her two year old daughter in a Walmart Supercenter parking lot. …
4 Ways to Help Our Kids Deal with Lunch Table Drama
I have been hearing about this for years from distressed teens and it pains me. 1. I don’t know where to sit …
Is Popularity Over-Rated?
POPULARITY, the social status, that so many of us crave for our kids and yes, let’s face it, often for ourselves as …
Prom Pranks
Prom season is quickly approaching. Teens are getting excited and sadly some are getting hurt in the process. A teen told me …
The Most Important Things to Teach Our Kids
When parents talk about their kids, we hear them talk about what good students they are, how well they play a sport, …
Justin Bieber: A Teen’s Walk of Shame
Another teen celebrity takes a fall. This morning, 19 year old pop star Justin Bieber was arrested for drunken driving and driving …
What Our Teen Daughters Can Learn from Our Teen Sons
Parents, teachers and those in the helping professions frequently talk about what our teen sons can learn from our teen daughters. Are …
Teaching Our Teens How to Handle the Toughest Relationship Lines
We all (both teens and adults) walk through our day and have both good encounters and deflating ones. True, huh? For many …
The Holidays, Teens and Alcohol
Christmas and New Year’s are quickly approaching and parents need to acknowledge that this is a time to focus on keeping teens …
How Teens Embarrass Parents
I write frequently about how parents embarrass teens. I’ve even literally walked on Main St. with HooplaHa and asked teens about their …
Teen Girls and Their Self Esteem
Once again I had the opportunity to meet with a group of teen girls and to find out what is going on …