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Consequences: Confronting Parent’s Denial

August 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
  • When you get a call late Saturday night telling you that your son has overdosed and is in the Emergency Room, your DENIAL is confronted.
  • When the Principal calls and tells you that your daughter has been suspended for coming to school drunk, your DENIAL is confronted.
  • When you wake up in the middle of the night and your car and your kid are gone, your DENIAL is confronted, or at least it should be.
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Dying Young: Reasearch Study Shows Pessimistic View of Life

June 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The University of Minnesota has done a longitudinal study of more that 20,000 teenagers, with a surprising conclusion. Teens don’t participate in risky behavior because they think that they are invincible, it’s because they feel very vulnerable, and they think that they are likely to die at a young age.

 Loving to get high is fuel for this fire, “if I’m going to die young, I may as well party to the max, for tomorrow I might be dead.”

 Please read this article, it will give you a lot to talk about with your son or daughter.

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Sightings of the Loving to Get High Syndrome™

May 28, 2009 By 1 Comment

One of my part time jobs is driving Limousine. This is my 10th Prom season, which I thoroughly enjoy. It is fun to see all of the young people decked out in full regalia.

My last prom was two weeks ago, with eight kids from the suburbs. I gave them the usual no smoking and no drinking lecture. They were fine with that. They had no intention of smoking or drinking. At least they didn’t plan on drinking alcohol. An hour later when I dropped them off for dinner, I found 22 empty bottles of “5 Hour Energy, extra strength”. That’s a lot of Caffeine. They were flying high. And it was all legal; they didn’t break any rules, mine or those of their High School.

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