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Anti-bullying Campaign Targets Parents

in Online Monitoring / Online Safety / Parent Tips / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Teaching Mindfulness / Uncategorized by acsteens August 7, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Starting in October of 2012, a series of print and web ads, targeting parents, will run with the message: Teach your kids to put a stop to bullying. The ads are a joint effort by the Ad Council, a non-profit that produces and distributes public service announcements, and the Free to Be…You and Me foundation. […]

How to Keep Your Teen’s Safe in the Summer

in Drugs & Alcohol / Mental Health / Parenting / Teen Motivation by acsteens July 18, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Summer time for a teen can be a great time to unwind from a stressful school year, get a part-time job for extra spending money, or prepare for future challenges such as; college prep tests, college applications, AP classes or driving tests. For some teens it can also mean a plenitude of idle time without […]

Prying or Protecting; Online Software for Parents to Monitor their Teenagers

in Online Monitoring / Online Safety / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Uncategorized by acsteens July 3, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

It is hard to imagine these days an American adolescent that is not connected in some way to the internet. Whether by smart phone, personal laptop, school computer, or shared-family computer; adolescents are “plugged in.” The internet is of course a useful learning tool that in this day and age is necessary in classrooms and […]

How to Make a Safe Teen Driver

in Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Teaching Mindfulness / Teen Driving / Uncategorized by acsteens May 15, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

With graduation and summer around the corner, AAA and Volvo want to make sure that parents speak to their kids about safe driving habits. According to research from the AAA Foundation seven of the 10 deadliest days of the year for teens fall between the holidays Memorial Day and Labor Day. July and August are […]

“Fine”: Getting Beyond the One-word Answer

in Parent Tips / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Uncategorized by acsteens May 9, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

by Rom Brafman PhD., ACS On-Campus Counselor It’s a sure sign that your son or daughter is entering adolescence. You ask them how their school day went, how was the afternoon spent hanging out with friends, or how was the movie they just watched, and you get the overly succinct and curt, “Fine.” Other related […]

TeenSphere-A Teen Self-help App

in Academic Stress / Behavioral Norms / Mental Health / Online Safety / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Recent Trends / Stress / Teen Apps / Uncategorized by acsteens April 27, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Have you heard the phrase, “There’s an App for that.” Well apparently that is true in the case of teen mental health, as well. Its called TeenSphere. The app is designed by a licensed psychotherapist who worked with kids for years. The topics it covers are all from teens’ real life concerns and worries. There are […]

Why Teens Think It’s Cool to be Rude

in Behavioral Norms / Mental Health / Parent Tips / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Teaching Mindfulness / Uncategorized by acsteens April 25, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Have you ever observed your teen being rude to a peer or another adult, and wondered, “Where did they learn that behavior?” Does being “rude” equal being “cool?” This theory was tested by a study performed in 2011 by scientists from the University of Amsterdam. “Breaking the Rules to Rise to Power: How Norm Violators Gain […]

Helping Teens as They Look into the Future

in Parent Tips / Parent-Teen Communication / Parenting / Teaching Mindfulness by acsteens March 20, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

by Martha Chan, M.A., LMFT, Site Director for Terman Middle School and parent of Gunn High School graduates, class of ’99 and class of ’03 I want to carry forward some of the resilience concepts that my colleague, Chris Chiochios, wrote about in an earlier newsletter: accepting our children for who they are and helping them to […]

How to Spot the First Signs of Teen Depression

in Depression / Drugs & Alcohol / Mental Health / Parent Tips / Parent-Teen Communication / Suicide / Suicide Prevention / Uncategorized by acsteens March 16, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Recently About.com posted a really helpful post about the “First Signs of Teen Depression.” The post was written by About.com’s resident teen health expert Denise Witmer. Here is the beginning of Denise’s post. Many times parents of teens who have tried to or have committed suicide struggle with the idea that there were signs of […]

“Bully”-New Documentary That Addresses Serious Problem For Adolescents

in Bullying / Uncategorized by acsteens March 13, 2012January 27, 2022 0 comments

Making the rounds of the festival circuit and personal preview events is a new movie that addresses the prevalence of bullying. The documentary, “Bully”, is 92 minute character driven film that takes a look at the lives of kids who get bullied. Filmed over the 2009/2010 academic school year, the film shows that bullying transcends […]