Promoting Healthy Teenage Lifestyles

As parents of teenagers ourselves, we recognize the trials and tribulations of parenting teens, hoping we are providing the appropriate guidance for their future and responding effectively to the challenges our teens face in becoming healthy young adults. In the course of providing counseling to numerous families with teens over the years, frequently parents have requested and hoped to obtain some basic, clear-cut tips and strategies “how to” deal with various emotional, behavioral, academic and relationship issues impacting their teen and subsequently effecting their parenting interventions. Unfortunately, there is no script or handbook that can be recommended for parents to follow in parenting their teen through these difficult and often disconcerting stages to adulthood, but the Surgeon General’s office has provided some general areas to pay attention to in raising your teen that we believe can be helpful to all parents. Take a look, Surgeon General