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Summer Enrollment in Boarding School Helps Teens Catch up Credits

Call (888) 972-7736 to enroll your teen this summer.

If your teen struggled in school this year, he or she might be unprepared for the next level of courses in the fall. Some teens may even have lost credits. Although summer school might be helpful for motivated teens who want to catch up and have a strong desire to learn the information so they can handle next year’s course materials, there are some teens who simply cannot work themselves out of their downward momentum at school.

Emotional growth and therapeutic boarding schools offer year-round enrollment and a strong counseling component to help such teens get back on track academically. Many of these schools also offer “Accelerated Academics” - meaning the students can earn a larger number of credits over a typical semester period than they could in a traditional school setting. This allows them to “catch up” and get back on track for a traditional graduation date.

Call (888) 972-7736 now to learn about programs that offer summer enrollment.

A Generation Tethered to their Helicopter Parents:
Over-Protective Child-Rearing Ruining Kids’ Lives

A childhood without a skinned knee? A college co-ed phoning her mom at midnight over a term paper? A parent going with his son on a job interview? These scenarios are so common today that professionals working with Gen Y (those born between 1980 and 1999) have coined a few terms for overprotective child rearing:

“The Tethered Generation.” This term, first used in HR Magazine, refers to young people who have to be in constant contact with their parents and each other via cell phones and Instant Message. A teen’s life becomes a continuous voice recording to Mom and Dad. The conversations are completely trivial and never-ending: “I’m getting out of class now and I’m on my way to the cafeteria.” “Dad, can you do this job application?” “Mom, what should I do about my crappy roommate? Today she wouldn’t empty the garbage.”

The “tethered generation” has no sense of human boundaries – no sense of where one life begins and another ends. There is no sense of space on MySpace: everything from how you got drunk the night before to details of your mall experience is written up for public consumption. Everything is communicated and nothing is personal or private. Just as you know everything about Brad and Angelina, so you know everything about the lives of your friends.

“Helicopter Parents.” This phrase invented by authors Neil Howe and William Strauss refers to parents who constantly hover over their child in search of dangers. If anything, no matter how trivial, upsets their ward, they swoop down to fix it. This means they meet with teachers over a failing test grade, they negotiate raises with their teen’s employer, they “fix” messy break-ups with their teen’s lover, they write term papers and college applications – and on and on.

Learn more about over-protective parenting can ruin kids’ lives >>

Wilderness Programs as Summer Camps

Looking for a summer program for your teen?
Call Toll-Free: (866) 845-1391

Special Needs Summer Camps

Camp Huntington is a special camp for children, teens, and young adults with developmental disorders, Autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
Call Toll-Free: (866) 845-1391 to learn more about Camp Huntington.

Making the Most of Summer Vacation

Summer vacation is an opportunity to help your teen learn and grow as an individual. It is also a chance for him or her to have new experiences and reinvent him or herself. In school teenagers are usually kept to a rigid schedule. These schedules offer few chances for them to make the choices that will empower them to get up every morning and feel like they are charting their own path in life as an individual. Such freedom is vital to helping your teen develop decision-making skills, and gain confidence and self-reliance. New environments and the potential for less direct supervision can expose young people to unhealthy influences and dangerous habits, yet with logical precautions and open conversations you can usually avoid regulating the fun out of summer. Helping your teen discover dynamic learning opportunities and expand the horizons of fun this summer is spectacular way to support them in having a full and happy life.

Read on to find more ways to help your teen make the most of this summer >>

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