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.)

Your prayers, thoughts and advice are requested by Brigette

This has been a particularly painful week for our family. After a prolonged series of outbursts, threats, shov...

Am I overlooking the simple solution?

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. --Lao-tzu A group of friends went swimming one day and one of them lost a ring in the bottom of the l...

Greetings from the Other Side - by Jessica Rabbit

The Rabbit family has finally seen the light and crossed over to the other side. No, we did not die, but quite the opposite, we decided to...

A Quote by Samuel Clemens

At a recent office meeting I was talking with one our therapists about kids and sons in particular. She has three grown sons and shared thi...

It doesn't feel genuine.

Where did I find this image? I met with a PSST couple yesterday. We practised the "Agree with One or Two Things First" techniqu...

Marijuana and its Synthetic Counterparts: A Look at a New Study - Sarit Rogers

Marijuana and its Synthetic Counterparts: A Look at a New Study © Copyright 2012 VISIONSTEEN.COM - Sarit Rogers of Visions Adolescent...

Message Found on Cisco's Facebook

A MESSAGE FROM CISCO I asked our son Cisco's permission to post this message that he has on his Face Book account. There were many time...

Destructive Teens - Article submitted by Brigette

Destructive Teens Below is a helpful article from the Empowering Parents website. It's a topic many of us (unfortunately) can relate to....

Facing Fear - by Wilma

Last week at the PSST meeting one of our wise and seasoned fathers said that we should not be afraid of being in our own homes. He is right...

Is it Water? Or is it Vodka? - by Wilma

As some of you know, a couple of weeks before Bam Bam was going to court last November, we busted him with water bottles of alcohol. He als...

A Parent Asks for Advice on Act 53 - PART 2

A Parent Asks for Advice on Act 53 - PART 2 PEBBLES HAS HER DAY IN COURT by Betty Pebbles' mom, Betty, sent this follow up to her previ...

Bam Bam's EHM is Off Again, On Again - By Wilma

A lot can happen in a week (have I said this before?). Bam Bam was reaching the end of his EHM sentence and getting very antsy. He was bug...

More Things I Wish I had Known...

THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN - From The Bridge to Hope CLICK HERE TO CONNECT TO "BRIDGE TO HOPE" - A Weekly ...

Are You A "Balloonatic" ? - by Jessica

BALLOONATIC - The overwhelming feeling that addiction issues have filled your home like a Macy's parade balloon. Recently I was asked b...

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