Kids love attention, and they’ll get it anyway they can. If they can’t get your attention by doing good things, they’ll get it by doing things they know are wrong. If the only time you acknowledge that your kids are around is when they do something wrong, they’ll continue to do wrong things. To a [...]

Millions of American teens are starting the school year as responsible, confident and successful members of their communities. What are the odds? Actually, pretty good, according to Teens Today research from Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD).
A survey of more than 2,700 middle- and high-school students revealed that most young people have a positive sense of [...]

Teens and trouble: think they go together like bread and butter? Well, you may be wrong. While teenagers do tend towards “risk-seeking” behavior, and seem to enjoy pushing boundaries – and parents’ buttons – troublesome behavior can be anything but typical.
According to Neil Bernstein, a clinical psychologist and author of How to Keep Your Teen [...]

After serving six months for strong-arm robbery, Frank Stephens left Rikers Island nearly five years ago in the same manner as most inmates. Just as dawn broke in April, a Department of Correction van dropped the 17-year-old and about 30 other convicts at Queensborough Plaza, among the “homeless, a lot of prostitutes, and crackheads” on [...]