Parenting With Love & Limits

A family-based intervention program

for families of  teens exhibiting limit-testing behaviors.

Brought to you by Bacon Street

What are limit-testing behaviors?

 Disrespect

Grade Failure

Multiple Suspensions

Chronic Truancy

Threats of Violence

Running Away

Physical Aggression

Stealing

Destruction of Property

Substance Abuse

Topics Covered:

* how teens win arguments

* how to stop your teen from pushing your buttons

* concrete tools and consequences to curb limit-testing behaviors

* what destroys the love relationship between you and your child

THE BOOK:

 Parenting Your Out of Control Teen  by: Scott Sells

THE WEBSITE: www.difficult.net


About the Program

*Parents attend 6 sessions which last 2 hours each.

*Teens participation requirements will be determined for each group.

*Parents are provided with concrete and practical tools to deal with limit-testing behaviors.

*Incorporates positive aspects of parenting and focuses on empowering parents.

*The goal of the program is to help support parents as they reestablish authority and reclaim lost love through consistent limits and strategies.

*Program based on more than six years of intensive research .

The Program Steps

1 - Understanding Why Your Teen is Out of Control

2 - Writing an Ironclad Contract with Clear Rules and Consequences

3 - Troubleshooting: How to Think Two Steps Ahead of Your Teen

4 - Button Pushing: Why Your Teen Wins Arguments

5 - Stopping your Teen's Seven Aces

6 - There is Strength in Numbers: How to Mobilize Outside Helpers

7 - Reclaiming Love Between You and Your Teen

Why a family-based program?

Research has found that "brief family interventions can reduce drug use among young people during the high-risk years when they are making the transition from childhood to adolescence."  In addition, it was found that "the critical element [of the programs examined] is the parent component."

"[A] federally sponsored National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health...found that family connections protect teenagers from harm."

Why substance abuse prevention?

Research shows that there is "overwhelming evidence of connections between" an adolescent's involvement in substance abuse and other limit-testing behaviors.

*Bacon Street is a not-for-profit organization which services youth in James City, York, Poquoson, and Williamsburg.  Bacon Street provides a variety of substance abuse prevention and treatment services.  All services are primarily family-focused and include individual, family and group counseling.

A Member Agency of

United Way of Greater Williamsburg

United Way of the Virginia Peninsula

A Contractual Service of Colonial Mental Health & Mental Retardation Services Board

How to contact Bacon Street:

P.O. Drawer 279
Williamsburg, VA  23187

(757) 253-0111 office
(757) 253-2884  fax


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