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Marijuana and the Movies

September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Loving to get high is popularized by Hollywood and adds a cultural context to what our kids appreciate and value. Here is a summary of video clips from movies that ‘glamorize’ getting high. I offer this to you as a parent, to help you see what our kids already see, “loving to get high in the movies”.

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This is a chance to pull your son or daughter aside, watch these clips together and find out how many of them they have already seen. You might be surprised.

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Wonder and Excitement

December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.  It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.  ~Rachel Carson

The idea that we lose our capacity for wonder and excitement by the time our eyes dim in adulthood is a sad tragedy. It doesn’t need to be that way.

As a parent, we need to become curious about our teenagers life.

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Things Our Kids Want and Need

May 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’ve created a list of things that our sons and daughters want and need.

Acceptance, Adventure, Affection, Affluence, Appreciation, Belonging, Bliss, Boldness, Care, Cleverness, Confidence, Connection, Control, Coolness, Courage, Curiosity, Desire, Determination, Devotion, Dignity, Discovery, Ecstasy, Encouragement, Energy, Enjoyment, Entertainment, Enthusiasm, Experience, Fairness, Fame, Family, Fashion, Freedom, Fun, etc.

This is a partial “List of Values” important to our kids. It includes A-F, only 6 of the 26 letters in the alphabet. As short as this list is, it speaks volumes about their emotional wants and needs.

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Values Worth Fighting For

December 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

No matter who we are, we all have the same Values.

How could this be true? It is not the presence or absence of values, we all work off of the same list, it is how important  they are to us. How we prioritize them? How we honor them?

If your number one value is concern for others and your son/daughters number one value is friendship, you may assume that there would be no conflict. At first glance they seem completely compatible, but when you look more closely, you can see that values can give us something to fight about.

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From Bummed to Bliss

October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Being bummed by life; stressed, unhappy, miserable, desperate, is all too common for young people. What do our kids do with this stress? How do they deal with this emotional ups and downs? Do they talk to you about any of this? Who do they talk to? Who’s giving them advise on how to cope? Is it possible that they have actually taken steps to deal with stress on their own, with the advice of their friends?

One very common way to deal with this is to experiment with a M.A.C. (Mood Altering Chemical) Some kids try it and find out that they don’t like it or they can take it or leave it.

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