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Category: Teens

  • Letting Go: a challenging [and continual] process in parenting a teenager into young adulthood

    Parenting a teenager into their young adulthood can be considered a constant and gradual process of letting go.  Your role as a parent changes as your child ages.  When they were a baby and learning to crawl, you likely crawled along on the floor with them.  Just like that, parents are tasked with continuing to…

  • Applying To College Without Completely Freaking Out

    Senior year of high school can bring a lot of feelings.  It’s exciting to the ‘top of the food chain’ age-wise at school, have fun events like Senior sunrise, prom/ Senior ball, finally get to hold leadership positions in your clubs and activities, etc.  However… simultaneously while you’re doing high school and probably needing to…

  • Attention, Focus, and Organizational Strategies for Getting Things Done

    Whether you have ADHD, think you might have ADHD, or simply have occasional difficulties with focus and follow through [like most humans], this is the blog entry for you.  I don’t have to tell you that in this era of smartphones and social media, we are more easily distracted than ever before.    Here are some…

  • What To Do Once You Get Accepted To Colleges

    If you’re currently applying to colleges, or a parent of said future college student, I’ve pulled together some tips for how to choose a college when you have several choices.  Many students apply to multiple colleges and then it’s the waiting game of crossing fingers and getting acceptance [and rejection] notices back.  That can help…

  • Applying To College Without Completely Freaking Out

    Senior year of high school can bring a lot of feelings.  It’s exciting to the ‘top of the food chain’ age-wise at school, have fun events like Senior sunrise, prom/ Senior ball, finally get to hold leadership positions in your clubs and activities, etc.  However… simultaneously while you’re doing high school and probably needing to…

  • Fostering Healthy Self-Esteem in Your Teen

    Did you know that it is common for self-esteem to temporarily decline in adolescence?  Or that low adolescent self-esteem is associated with problems including depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and even suicidality?  In today’s blog entry, I’ll provide some background information on self-esteem in the developmental stage of adolescence, and offer some tips…