There are few moments as a parent that feel as intense as this one: Your child says something like… “I don’t want to be here anymore.” “Sometimes I wish I could just disappear.” And suddenly—something inside of you shifts. Your heart starts racing. Your thoughts...
Written from the Perspective of a Troubled Teen Dear Mom and Dad, Sometimes I start to say something… and then I stop. Not because I don’t want to talk. I do - I want to talk. I need to talk to someone about it all....
A letter written from the perspective of a teen. Dear Mom and Dad, Sometimes there’s a part of me that feels so overwhelmed… so heavy… that it starts to think it might be easier not to be here at all. I don’t always understand it....
A new nationwide study has confirmed what many parents of school-age children quietly fear: everyone else seems to have cracked the code—and your household is the lone exception. The study, conducted by the Center for Childhood Competence and Smooth Evenings, found that most parents of...