There is something powerful about scratching out one old period of time and making room for what’s ahead. Here are New Year’s resolutions for parents and teens in Ken Rabow’s Life Coaching Outside the Box column.
The Impact of Extra-Curricular Activities on Troubled Teens
Ken Rabow
Extra-curricular activities can badly effect the mental development of children.
Extra-curricular activities can be the salvation of adolescents and teens.
How can both these statements be true?
My Teen’s Hobbies Scare Me!
Ken Rabow
A recent study at Indiana University showed a direct relationship between playing violent video games incessantly over an extended period of time and a subsequent change in brain regions associated with cognitive function and emotional control.
READS: What’s A Parent To Do
Elaine Meyers
With a hundred and one responsibilities lined up in no particular order, how can you be certain your elementary-aged child understood what he or she read during their required 20 minutes of homework reading?
Teen Problems Into Teen Success – Going Out Into The World
Ken Rabow
A client of mine in his early 20′s recently told me that he really loves his room. It had come to him that he had created a “box of safety” and that he understood that it represented both good things and bad things. On the bad list was that everything and everywhere else that was not his box of safety. We decided to see if we could help him create portable “boxes of safety”out there in the real world
St. Andrew’s College Students Have a New ‘Awakening’
Carly Maga
It’s Romeo and Juliet meets the West Side Story. St. Andrew’s College’s latest production of Spring Awakening, which runs until Saturday, Nov. 26, tackles mental health and sexuality — and opens up the conversation on difficult but important issues.
