Parent Alert: College mental health crisis and signs your teen may be depressed or at risk of dropping out Your son or daughter is back from college for the holidays! He or she spent months studying for those SATs, filling out college applications and agonizing.  Then acceptance! You move your teen into the dorm, hug [...]

Every parent and educator must know these troubling facts about our teens. Each fact is a wake-up call, but together they should mean: “Time for Code Red” This blog was written by the Bachelor’s Degree Online and published with their permission. One of the greatest lies ever perpetuated about the teen years is that they’re [...]

New research shows friends help decrease anxiety, ward away the blues and boost our children’s resilience. Here are research-based steps to help kids learn essential friendship-making skills to enhance their social competence,  fit in, and be less-likely to be excluded and bullied so you know what to do if your child says, “Nobody likes me, [...]

Parenting tips to help you understand what depression looks like age by age. Here is what’s not true about your child and depression: “She’s too young to be depressed.” “Don’t worry. It’s only a phase.” “Real depression is something only teens or adults get.” “He’ll outgrow it.” Beware that depression is now diagnosed in even [...]

The mothers of two 14-year-old girls who killed themselves in a suicide pact spoke to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about their heartbreak today, saying their daughters had been victims of cyberbullying and suffered from depression — but they never expected anything this horrible. “I tried to teach her to see past tomorrow,” said Tricia Behnke, mother of [...]