Parenting your adolescent is possibly one of the most challenging experiences in your life and their negative qualities can often be the qualities you think of first. As we begin a new year, I want to encourage you to focus on a few of the…
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Adolescents See You Through an Emotional Lens
December 7, 2017
When you look into the face of another adult, your brain helps you determine if the person you are with is happy, sad or in any other emotional state. That is because your prefrontal cortex, behind the forehead, is fully developed and uses logic to…
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Inspire Your Teen’s Vision for the Future
October 26, 2017
I will never forget a conversation I had with a first-year medical student while I was a professor in the UCLA Medical School. This student came to talk to me about a difficult decision she was wrestling with. She was an outstanding first year medical…
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Parenting an Adolescent Calls for Tough Love
August 3, 2017
The turmoil that begins for your child as they enter puberty does not just happen to them. Your life will be thrown into chaos as well! The reason for this is that as your child is taking the initial steps toward adulthood, your parenting focus…
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A Mother’s Day Letter to Her Adolescent Child
May 12, 2017
Most moms of adolescents and young teens spend each day caught up in the chaos of hormone surges and emotional upheaval. You never know exactly what it will be like during the next few minutes with your unpredictable child, but you hope that whatever interaction…
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