The Anti-Social Child
In an effort to provide some perspective on problematic behavior I want to provide for you some guidelines on anti-social behaviors and understanding what you’re seeing. You will see some familiar...
View ArticleLife After Healing
Self-forgiveness “Forgiving your self means that you give up the right to blame yourself for what you could not control. You may have achieved some level of intellectual self-forgiveness through your...
View ArticleHealing After Trauma
Why is it important for you to move past the traumatic event? “Your objective is not to become perfect. If you have been raped, your objective is to be as you were before the rape, but stronger and...
View ArticleHow we can help: Children of Divorce
Children of divorce often pay the highest price when families find themselves in the unfortunate position of dissolution or even possible reconciliation of marriage. For over a decade, the Academy at...
View ArticleValues
“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” Confuscious “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit, we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing...
View ArticleVictimization: A Violation of Spirit
“We have created a culture of bogus victimology that almost daily seems to drown our moral sense – by making excuses for vicious criminality, and obscuring the real suffering that such criminality so...
View ArticleMore on Fear and Anger
When ever you’re angry, ask yourself, what am I afraid of? Emotions of fear and anger are primitive and based in the ancient limbic region, particularly the amygdala. This is currently the focus of...
View ArticleExploitation: ALERT!
Teen and pre-teen girls have never been more at risk! It is a tragic sign of our times. Parents must be aware– don’t think it cannot happen to your daughter! The average age of entry into the U.S. sex...
View ArticlePeer Associations / Approval, Acceptance, Choice
As we all know, peers/friends are probably the most important thing in a teen’s life. This can be a particular conundrum depending on who the friends are, of course. We know that along with...
View ArticleTop 5 Warning Signs Your Teen is Becoming ‘At Risk’
“Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority and show disrespect for their elders. They contradict their parents, and tyrannize their teachers.” This was written by...
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