If your teen promised this year would be different but their first six-week progress report tells a different story, Aspen can help get your child back on track. Our short-term wilderness programs and long-term boarding schools offer rolling admissions throughout the year. Call (888) 972-7736 to find out how we can help your teen get back on track.
Are you frustrated by the way traditional schools work with your child who has ADHD?
Would you like to find a school that can effectively address your child's educational and social needs?
Aspen Education Group can help. Click here to learn about our schools specializing in ADHD to find out which schools will ready your ADHD child for college and beyond.
We know why it's called the Edison Gene.
Keeping Teens Safe on Halloween
Teens are always in either a state of limbo, too scared or unsure to try
anything, or veering manically from one personality to the next, trying them on
for size. What better holiday for them than Halloween, when they can put on a
costume and become someone completely different without long-lasting
repercussions (hold the tattoo, please).
Trick-or-treating - are they too old? For the most part, that decision needs to be made by your child. When my son was 13, he decided he wanted to forgo trotting around the neighborhood and be the candy-giver at our home. He really gets a kick out of answering the door and doling out the treats. Some of his friends, however, have continued to dress-up and go house-to-house well into their late teens.
Here are some ideas and tips to make
Halloween safe and sane for you and your teen(s) >>
Specialty Boarding Schools
Call (888) 972-7736 to learn about boarding schools with expertise in behavioral and emotional issues, learning differences, and social problems. Therapeutic boarding schools give students struggling in public schools an opportunity to change their lives, rediscover their self-worth, and build great futures.
Boomers Tell Kids: Do As I Say, Not As I Did
You want your kids to say no to drugs, even though years ago you said yes. You want to “have the talk” but you feel like a hypocrite every time the subject comes up. The uncomfortable feelings make you avoid the subject, yet you feel guilty because you want to be a good parent and warn your children about the dangers of drug use.
If you see yourself in that paragraph, you are not alone. The vast majority of baby boomers, now parents themselves, have tried marijuana. Sixty percent now use alcohol regularly; twenty percent are heavy or binge drinkers. Five percent of today’s baby boomers still use illicit drugs on a regular basis. Illicit drugs are marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or prescription-type psychotherapeutics used non-medically.
Perhaps this is why most baby boomers did not react when former President Bill Clinton said he had tried marijuana. His own daughter was twelve years old when he said that. So given this state of affairs, what should parents do? No one wants to be a hypocrite.
Leading researchers offer parents three major guidelines. Continue reading to learn about each one >>
