March 11, 2016

Reliving the Past

Each of us has unhealed childhood wounds that affect how we parent. When our child doesn’t make the baseball team or isn’t asked to the school […]
March 11, 2016

Connection To Hope

From Monday to Friday: 20 hours of swimming, 30 hours at school and 12 hours of homework left me 58 hours to socialize, be a teenager […]
March 1, 2016

Responding to Drug Use

Talking to your child about the pressures of drug use is key to prevention. However you may have found that they have already tried drugs. If […]
February 26, 2016

FACEBOOK ‘FRENEMIES’

Victim of social media attack still questions why.  In the spring of 2010, a group of Pinnacle High School students created a group on Facebook about […]
February 26, 2016

Addicted Like Me

The bond between mother and daughter can be forged by many things, from a mutual love of clothes or jewelry to a shared interest in a […]
February 26, 2016

Complete 180

As a young kid, I was picked on pretty mercilessly by my peers, about anything from my short hair to my crooked teeth. I would purposefully […]
February 26, 2016

Help Your Child Make Healthy Decisions

At some point in the middle or high school years, most every child is going to wrestle with peer pressure and confront those three dreaded little […]
February 12, 2016

Think Before You Drink

Planning to take the kids to an adult birthday party? Heading out for a family barbecue? Before you toast your BFF on her 40th or wash […]
February 12, 2016

Food and Fitness in Junior High

Junior High  school is a significant time for children, especially when it comes to the physiological makeup of their bodies. Most are entering puberty and experiencing […]