Parental Resources

Cyber drugs for boys: Online video gaming, video games. Are video games addictive? Poor grades, lying, mood swings, staying up all night, and conflicts with parents. At first glance it sounds like addiction to drugs or alcohol. In truth it’s a description of a 15-year-old who has become addicted to »

In the news on September 9th, there was an article about 4 Pennsylvania 10th graders who had taken an herbal supplement called “SNURF, and wound up being hospitalized. Where had they bought them? A drug dealer? A friend? An older sibling? No, they purchased the pink pill online over the »

Advice from teens to their parents The internet has more on it than you can begin to imagine. You can go to websites and learn how to make drugs from everyday items, their effects, danger, etc…to the chemical makeup of LSD or how to make Crystal Meth. Don’t underestimate a »

Do you want to know how to lose your teen? Allow them to watch television whenever they want, preferably in their bedroom—and make sure they have unfettered access to MTV, HBO, Cinemax, and premium movies channels. Put a computer with a high speed Internet connection in their room or in »

Cell phones are everywhere. Just take a stroll around your local mall and try to count how many people are using their cells phones as they walk around. My guess is the number will be so high, you'll lose count. Younger and younger children are now using cell phones as »

Parents are the teachers, not the culture? Is this true in your family? I recently watched my two children play a game in our driveway called “cross the street. Other than the squirrels, my driveway is not a particularly busy place, but, in their imaginary world, it must have seemed »

Lessons from the Amish The now infamous and often parodied line from an old movie went, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry. I imagine this means if you really love someone you will never do or say anything to them you regret, or for which you need to »

With the popularity of Valentine’s Day, February is known more today as the month for love and romance, than the birthday of two famous presidents. While the birth of this interesting holiday remains a mixture of legend as much as history, there can be little doubt why it is such »

Having just ended a political season, I am sure politics is the last thing we want to talk about to anyone right now! Still the question is a fair one, what do we want our children to learn from us about the world of politics and our responsibilities as citizens? »