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Seven Steps To Turning Around A Bad School Year

Seven Steps To Turning Around A Bad School Year
It arrives. The phone call you've been dreading. It's your child's (pick a subject) teacher, or the vice-principal and they're calling to tell you that your child sucks and that you are a bad parent. It's all your fault, not theirs, and what are you going to do about it? They don't actually say that,…
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Help! My Child is Glued to the Video Game Console!

Help! My Child is Glued to the Video Game Console!
Well, if they really are glued to the console, their sibling probably got crazy glue for the holidays. But, more than likely, they just disappeared into their rooms, coming out only occasionally, bleary-eyed, to grab some food and then return back to their cave. How bad is incessant video gaming? I think it's all about…
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Marijuana Addiction – Finding A System That Works

Marijuana Addiction – Finding A System That Works
65% of the young clients I treat have “issues” with marijuana when I meet them. There may be others out there who do fine with marijuana but they don’t come to see me. The ones that I see have some or all of these factors playing on them at once: 1) Procrastination problem 2) Organizational…
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My Kid is So Smart… Why Isn’t He/She Doing Anything With It?

My Kid is So Smart… Why Isn’t He/She Doing Anything With It?
How many incredibly talented young people have we known who never seemed to get out of the starting gate or who start new things brilliantly but never “go the distance”? These people are a majority of the clients I work with on a weekly basis. They are clever, well spoken, considerate and fun to be…
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