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.)

Coffee House Nation goes to Steeler Game

Special Thanks to The Steelers , and PSST parents Mary, Beth and Erv for making this outing and the tail-gating a big success. This is our t...

Message from PSST parent.

With the permission of the parent we are reprinting this recent email. We now can reveal that this comment is from "Sally." Hi Ll...

Take the Marijuana and Health Risks Quiz

Research shows that today’s pot is addictive and causes harm to developing brains and lungs. To learn more about the health risks associate...

Feeding the Enemy

Your teenager has a drug problem and is away in rehab. You still want to have your teenager's friends over the house. It feels very wron...

Two Books That May Help

A book review by Linda Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff 2008 Tweak: Growing Up on Metham...

Preparing for a six hour home pass.

This role-play was written in April of 2007. I want to reprint it today with a quick introduction. First, it's never important when you ...

MEETING ON! (Wexford 8-8-09)

We are going to meet either outside of our normal meeting place or very close as we can find to there. Bring lawn chairs if you want but som...

The Power to Make Us Quake

We can suggest techniques to help parents stop allowing themselves to be manipulated, e.g., see Top Three Ways Teens Manipulate ; however, t...

More on waking up hard-to-wake teen.

We posted on waking up teenager back in March and now we have information from a parent about progess that has been made with one of our har...

This question came in from a parent. How much money should a teenager contribute towards day to day home expenses? After a little thought, w...

Home pass from institution. 10 things to keep in mind!

So your teenager is at Abraxas, Ridgeview, or Gateway and he is going to have his first block of time at home. Perhaps it's four hours, ...

Alert! New Schedule in effect so this is our ONLY meeting at Wexford in July.

Lets hope for a nice turnout on July 11th. Our Wexford chapter has at times been our biggest meeting. I also think we have some good news to...

Power statement: I am disappointed...

It is much more powerful to say " I am disappointed that you didn't stay home when I told you to stay home, " than it is to s...

July 4th Meeting at Eastern cancelled due to holiday. Happy 4th!

Sorry. We know that we only meet once per month at Eastern but the Fourth of July would probably not be well attended. See you at Eastern Ne...

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