Parent Survival Skills Training (PSST)

Over the years we have collected/shared hard-won information, skills, and techniques a parent needs to help a teenager with a drug problem save his own life. (CLICK ON THE LOGO ABOVE to return to the home-page for this blog.)

The Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Conclusion-Part V

The conclusion of our Five-part series: We continue with the last role-play from part IV. The Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Part ...

Losing Your Teenager and Gaining an Adult - Part 1 of 6 Written by Lori (Reprinted from PSST blog 1-29-08)

I am a mother in a Middle-America, double income family that consists of my husband of 30 years, my daughter age 27 and my son age 21. I gr...

Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Part IV

Doing good temporarily (just to get privileges back.) This is the fourth of a five-part series. So far we’ve talked about the manipulative ...

No meeting this Saturday:

It's the Fifth Saturday in the month. We meet the First and Third and Eastern and the Second and Fourth at the Alliance Office. Type re...

Northhills PSST has seven parents: Body Language discussed.

How do you give your teen the bottom line? Does it matter? Let your teen know you really mean it by using good strong body language. How ...

Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Part III

Guilting the parent. This is the third of five parts: Last week we talked about lying and gave several examples of how to deal with it. Thi...

What are the best ways to stop enabling teens?

What do the teenagers and their parents tell us about enabling? I had opportunity to ask a large group of teenagers and parents in an outpa...

When Teenagers Harrass Parents

It's 11:00 PM. A teen wants to get his mother, who in this case is a single parent, to allow him to go out with friends the next day. ...

Meeting on the 17th well attended by 15 parents

Thanks to everyone for making this meeting work out. Regular members turned out to support the six new faces. While are ability to hear upd...

Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Part II

Approaches to Dealing with Teen Lying. This is the second of five parts: Part 2 – Approaches to Dealing with Teen Lying Last week we talked...

AccuTracking: Are you interested in monitoring your teens driving habits and not spending a fortune doing it?

The following is posted anonymously by a parent who has used this tracking service. I post it here because parents in group have expressed ...

My teen doesn't talk to me. What can I do?

Many parents have difficulty trying to get their teens to have a nice chat. Here are seven tips. You might have some other tips and if so, ...

Meeting at Eastern on 17th is a special meeting.

There is an Juvenile Court Education/ Assessment group that meets monthly at Eastern. That group will also be meeting on the 17th. In fa...

Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate Parents: Part I

Recently, I had the opportunity to have 15 teens from a Drug and Alcohol outpatient program tell me what were the most effective ways to ge...

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