“Children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority and show disrespect for their elders. They contradict their parents, and tyrannize their teachers.” This was written by Socrates 2000 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Problems with teens aren’t new, but things have obviously changed. Today’s youth, especially young women, face… Continue reading Top 5 Warning Signs Your Teen is Becoming ‘At Risk’
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Victimization: A Violation of Spirit
“We have created a culture of bogus victimology that almost daily seems to drown our moral sense – by making excuses for vicious criminality, and obscuring the real suffering that such criminality so often leaves in its wake.” Charles Sykes Journalist What is the true significance of being sexually abused or “violated”? Literature on the… Continue reading Victimization: A Violation of Spirit
Values
“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” Confuscious “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit, we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” Aristotle Every day, every one of us meets life situations which call… Continue reading Values
How we can help: Children of Divorce
Children of divorce often pay the highest price when families find themselves in the unfortunate position of dissolution or even possible reconciliation of marriage. For over a decade, the Academy at Sisters has provided expert care and educational services to teen girls who find themselves in the throws of their parent’s problems. You can help… Continue reading How we can help: Children of Divorce
Healing After Trauma
Why is it important for you to move past the traumatic event? “Your objective is not to become perfect. If you have been raped, your objective is to be as you were before the rape, but stronger and wiser. If you were abused as a child, your objective is to rid yourself of the feelings… Continue reading Healing After Trauma
Life After Healing
Self-forgiveness “Forgiving your self means that you give up the right to blame yourself for what you could not control. You may have achieved some level of intellectual self-forgiveness through your rational analysis of the assault. However, emotional self-forgiveness can take much longer and it requires you to acknowledge and process your anger, grief, and… Continue reading Life After Healing
The Anti-Social Child
In an effort to provide some perspective on problematic behavior I want to provide for you some guidelines on anti-social behaviors and understanding what you’re seeing. You will see some familiar terms here because we strive to address any antisocial traits when we see them. A truly anti-social youngster approaches the world with a sense… Continue reading The Anti-Social Child
The U.S. Department of Justice on Child Abuse and Neglect
In their longitudinal studies, the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice found some daunting statistics on child abuse and neglect. Their “findings strongly indicate the relationship between abuse and neglect and delinquency and adult criminality and violent behavior.” Although no single factor is likely to account for development of criminal behavior,… Continue reading The U.S. Department of Justice on Child Abuse and Neglect
How We Help Children Change
First and foremost our number one goal for kids we work with, all kids we work with, is to produce “self-efficacy”. By that we mean, “self-reliance”, “persistence”, “courage to endure adversity”, “resilience”, and “confidence”. In order to achieve this we believe we must focus on certain aspects of a child’s makeup. Primary in our focus… Continue reading How We Help Children Change
Identifying Signs of Anger
“If you are patient in one moment of anger you will avoid 100 days of sorrow.” Confuscious Many people who have not learned to understand anger within themselves struggle to recognize it as it approaches, only becoming aware once it has exploded and become overwhelming. Learning to identify anger as it begins to escalate is… Continue reading Identifying Signs of Anger