By Marianella Alvarado-Michel B.S., ICADC, ICCDP Addiction Counselor “73% of teenagers reported that school stress was the primary reason for drug use. This study clearly tells us that kids in America do not know how to deal with stress and that they are...
A friend of mine who is a high school English teacher in our local schools has been perplexed by the behavior of some of her current students. She said, “Help me understand why a third of my students can’t sit still in their desks? They wiggle, they...
Q. As a parent I am stressed out about the new subject of “sexting.” We just gave my 10 year old a cell phone. Should I be concerned? A. A cell phone can definitely create a whole new set of problems and stress. A common usage of a phone is to take funny...
