Tag: teenager

Parenting Video: Drug Use

Posted by | Published on April 20, 2009

Counselor John Townsend address the following question: When I cleaned my teenager’s room I found marijuana. How should I confront them now that I know they are on drugs? [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please contact tech support if you are unable to configure your browser […] 

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Hooked on Drugs or Alcohol?

Posted by | Published on April 20, 2009

While working on school work, I came across a great evaluation to determine if your student may have a drug or alcohol problem. 1.  Identification with drug culture drug-related magazines or slogans on clothing conversation and jokes that are preoccupied with drugs hostility discussing drugs collection of beer cans 2.  Signs of physical deterioration memory […] 

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Social Control Unit

Posted by | Published on November 10, 2008

Mark D. Regnerus argues in his book, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, that churches are not much more than “social control units.”  What he means by that is, the church is designed to bend adolescent (for that matter any age group) behavior away from the norm and “helps prevent […] 

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