Sue Scheff: High School Diploma vs GED

Speaking with parents regularly, I hear this story frequently. Teenagers are dropping out of High School and getting a GED.  This has become more and more acceptable, however is it recommendable?  Personally, I believe there are some cases that it is the only way a person can finish school, but I think parents need to [...]

Sue Scheff: Teen Drug Issues

As a parent advocate, I always welcome valuable information and websites that can help educate parents and others with today’s concerns with substance abuse and other issues surrounding our children.  TheAntiDrug.com website has a wide variety of educational information for parents and adult caregivers of teens – also check out the Q&A below with Karen [...]

Sue Scheff: Teens and Alcohol

Summer break is around the corner.  Teens experimenting with drinking?  Substance Abuse?  Be an educated parent, learn all you can about the resources and parenting tips that are available to you.
Source: Connect with Kids
Alcohol and the Teen Brain
“And one important difference we found…was that the kids with the heavy drinking patterns were not able to retain [...]

CAROLINA SPRINGS ACADEMY – LEARN MORE

Are you a parent at your wit’s end? Learn from my mistakes and all that I have learned over almost a decade of researching this very daunting industry of “teen help.”
It has been almost 10 years since I made the horrible mistake of choosing Carolina Springs Academy  for my daughter who was struggling. Good kid [...]

Sue Scheff: Teenage Substance Abuse

Almost on a daily basis I receive emails from caring parents, educators, and others that work with today’s teens and children asking me to share their information.  At my organization, Parents’ Universal Resource Experts, it is about parents helping parents and with this, I will continue to share great websites, articles, parenting tips and more. 
Today, [...]

Sue Scheff: Parent Choices for Teens

Local Therapy:
 
Local therapy is a good place to start with children that struggling at home and school.  To locate a local therapist, it is beneficial to contact your insurance company for a list of adolescent therapists in your area.  If you don’t have insurance when calling therapists, ask them if they accept sliding scales according [...]

Sue Scheff: Parent Resources in Florida

After speaking with a mother in Northern Florida, she introduced me to another valuable website of information for other parents.  Parents’ Universal Resource Experts  is based on parents helping parents and this is another example of it. 
Source: www.ihelpparents.com
What you as a parent will need to change unwanted child behavior?
1.  A commitment:  We can’t keep you [...]

Sue Scheff – Teen Runaways

One of any parent’s greatest fears is a missing child.
Each year, one million troubled teens from every social class, race and religion run away from home. Unfortunately, for American families, that number continues to rise.
Confused, pressured and highly impressionable teens follow their peers into bad choices. In most cases, runaway teenagers want to escape the [...]

Sue Scheff: Parents Talking to their Teens About Drugs

O-kay – Michael Phelp’s, a role model for our kids – has screwed up. I am not condoning what he did – but can’t help to think that this is yet another opportunity for parents to open up a discussion about drugs with their kids.
Newsday.com has an article encouraging coaches to speak with young athletes [...]

Sue Scheff – Pre-Teens and Peer Pressure

Source: About.com
When your preteen first starts middle school they may be facing real peer pressure for the first time. Experimenting with smoking, drugs and skipping school does start at this age. This is because these recently elementary school graduates want to fit in with the older crowd. Here are some things you can do to [...]