by APFLI | Aug 23, 2005 | Parent Resources
These suggestions are specifically aimed at helping your children avoid smoking. However, these basic helpful hints will also help protect your child from drugs and from sexual activity outside marriage. See Through Their Eyes. Reassure your child that while friends...
by APFLI | Aug 17, 2005 | Parent Resources
Resisting negative peer pressure takes practice. Prepare your child for tough situations. Peer pressure feels like having a spotlight shining on you in a big crowd. You need to make a decision quickly and you dont know what to do, according to a 17 year-old from...
by APFLI | Aug 17, 2005 | Parent Resources
See Through Their Eyes. Reassure your child that while friends will sometimes hassle him/her for not going along, many times they wont. Either way, the most important thing is for her/him to make her/his own decisions. Adolescents also tend to overestimate how many...
by APFLI | Feb 20, 2005 | Studies - Cohabitation
A U.S. gov’t study concludes it's healthy to be married; overall, married people are sick less often and more active. They smoke and drink less and in general feel better than single, divorced, never married or even folks just living together. Among adults...
