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.)

Emily's Progress - Or Lack of It.

Here is a small update on Emily written by Emily's mom. Life is unpredictable and tough, just when you think you have got a hang of how ...

Protect Our Doubts - by Paulo Coelho

Rocco was thinking of Emily's mom and Emily's Progress and we both thought these words of wisdom were apropriate. Protect our doubt...

A Walk in the Park with Cisco and The Beagle

Hi, it has been a while since I filled you in on our family and how we are progressing. We are changing (for the better) and I feel that y...

Max and Mels Terrible Adventure

Our younger son, David, is 14 1/2. He was always a kid with lots of nice friends, kids with involved parents. Even as he moved from elementa...

Who is the big dog at your house? Featured technique: use of "NOW"

While we have no magic words in Parenting Skills, we do have words when used with a certain approach, can work like magic. Consider the word...

A Mom's Insight into Missing Memories Part 2

PART 2 Here is the next part of a mom’s missing memories. Lori shared this in 2008. Her story touches all families of teenage addicts. Losin...

A Letter of Commendation from a Grateful Parent

Here is a letter from just one of the many parents who is so thankful to have found the help and dedication she needed from Kathie of Wesle...

Summary of March 20th PSST Meeting in Mt Lebanon

The resoluteness and mindfulness of the parents as they spoke about their teenagers this Saturday was so inspiring to me. I think one parti...

Looking for a Few Good Men

We like bumper stickers. The other day we saw one that read: “Real Men Don’t Ask for Directions” Sally laughed at me for laughing at it. Wel...

Free Professional Training Conference

Reducing Risk: Understanding the Adolescent Brain Wondering why teens and adults don't see eye to eye? This free conference may help. Se...

A Mom's Insight into Missing What Didn't Happen

During a recent visit with our son at Gateway YES he expressed his unhappiness that his addiction had cheated him out of his teenage years. ...

A Summary of the PSST - March 13th Meeting

A lot was accomplished at the PSST meeting at Trinity Lutheran Church in Wexford this past Saturday. We had eleven parents show up; three of...

Sally wrote great summary of our March 13th (see above) and I would like to add a couple thoughts.

One of our roleplays featured a parent saying something to the effect of: "Yes, I did report you to your PO and I'll bust your a$$ ...

When the going gets weird, The weird....get green food coloring

Contributed by an anonymous single mom When I first realized that drug testing was going to be yet another part of my single-mom job descri...

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