Motivating Your Child – Simple Steps

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Is your child seriously lacking motivation? How do you find out if your kid is not motivated towards his duties? Well, an easy way to find out is to ask your kid to do something, and see the interest and dedication that he puts in the task. A lot of kids become unmotivated at times, [...]

Motivating Teenagers to Study

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When a kid enters teenage, the whole perspective of their life begins to change. Problems evolve and become much more difficult to handle, ‘needs and wants’ change and a completely new dimension to life opens up. The pressure of academics begins to increase, and a lot of children find it much more difficult to focus [...]

Drugs in Schools: Fast Facts

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The availability of drugs at schools has increased over the last ten years although the overall use of illicit drugs has declined. Yet too many teenagers are still abusing drugs. In the National Institute on Drug Abuse 2005 Monitoring the Future survey researchers found that 50% of high school seniors report some use of an [...]

Usual Teen Boarding School Boarding Fees

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You and your child’s health professional have come to the conclusion that teen boarding school is the best path toward improvement for your son or daughter. Your next question is likely to regard boarding school boarding fees: How much is this going to cost, and is there any financial aid available for a teen boarding [...]

Wilderness Programs For Troubled Teens

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If you have a troubled boy at home and don’t know what to do to help him there are a few options that you need to consider. One of the most popular options is sending your child to a specialty boarding school. Those schools are specialized in dealing with all sorts of teen issues and [...]

Teen Academic Answers

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The two most common issues with teen academics are helping and worrying about your child failing classes or what college your child is going to get into. It is simply divided into those two categories, worrying for a child and his poor academic achievements and finding a way to help him or worrying about your [...]

Boarding School vs. Private School – Or neither?

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For troubled teens both boarding schools and programs at private schools that specialize in particular behaviors have proven to be highly effective. The reason most behavioral counselors will recommend a boarding school over a program in a private school is if the adolescent needs to be removed from a negative environment that may involve drugs [...]

Boarding School for Kid Problem – Is it One Step Too Far?

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With the prevalence of the speciality kid problem boarding school, now widely available, and widely promoted, it is very tempting for parents of troubled teens to send away their problem child and let somebody else deal with their problems. After all, we are told that the child will have the opportunity to re-invent themselves, leaving [...]