Posts Tagged ‘teen brain’
Mixed Messages On Teen Drinking
What happens when adults/parents send mixed messages on teen drinking? While their intent is clear — keep teens safe — the way a teen hears a parent or an adult’s message can have an adverse result. Yet, saying nothing doesn’t work, either. To help parents/adults with some of these very important conversations, I’ve provided three…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Conversation About Underage Drinking
Broaching the topic of underage drinking with your teen — now that’s a conversation stopper! It’s that time of year — graduating high school seniors off to college in the fall, 19 year old college students home for the summer, and parents concerned about how to talk to them about drinking at this stage of the…
Read MoreBrain Development Ages 12-25: Major Changes; Major Implications for Underage Drinking
by Lisa Frederiksen As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, “Teen Stress and the Substance Misuse Connection,” I thought I would repost one that I wrote in October 2009 and updated March 4, 2011. The connection between the two posts has to do with the potentially devastating consequences of underage drinking (or drug use, for that…
Read MoreWhat Were You Thinking?
What were you thinking? How many of us have asked (okay, sometimes yelled) at our teen, “What were you thinking?” after another of their “stupid stunts?” That’s just the problem, they’re not thinking! Not only that – they can’t – or at least not the way an adult might. Thanks to new brain imaging technologies,…
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