Research-Based, guided  Relaxation Techniques with uplifting music focuses on stress management for teens. FREE domestic shipping (approximately 60 minutes) created by Lori Lite • ISBN 9780970863393 Available as a discounted mp3 download below. Also available on iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers The American Psychology Association reports that 86 percent of tweens and 74 percent [...]

My husband and I were sitting at high school orientation when the principal began to brag about the amount of stress our teens would experience as a freshman. Suddenly the teenage dream of going to High School…began to feel like a nightmare. I felt my stomach tighten and my husband squeezed my hand. My husband [...]

Note to Readers: Teen  years are stressful, with friendships ranking high on a teens lists of concerns. Stressful friendships are toxic to the entire family. One way to prevent your teenager from having negative, energy sucking, drama causing relationships, is to have an honest look at our own friendships. My formula for a stress free [...]

By Lori Lite Anxiety and stress with teenagers are at an all-time high for tweens. They are transitioning from child to teen and want to show us (parents) that they are nothing like us and they no longer need us in their lives. Tweens are bombarded with internal and external stressors. School, dating, peer pressure, [...]

Note to Readers: Teen stress is not always easy to detect, but we know teens are under enormous amounts of stress. Teens and their families can all benefit by learning to balance their stress filled lives with stress management techniques. Thanks to Annie for sharing these steps to introduce your teen to the powerful effective technique [...]

Just as the regulation of sleep cycles for teens in particular is instrumental in overall adolescent well-being, so too is time management. Not only are teens undergoing enormous changes, both emotionally and physically, but they have the added weight of having to keep up with the proverbially hectic junior high or high school schedule. Parents [...]

With school winding down and colleges finishing up teens are adjusting to another change in their schedules. When they are still living at home it’s easier to monitor and have input on their schedules but when they are away at school who knows what type of sleep they are getting. If they are home for [...]

by Lori Lite One third of teens in the United States state that they feel stressed on a daily basis.-The University of Michigan Most parents recognize (and remember) that the teenage years are a volatile time marked by the struggle for independence, the forging of identity, the painful process of emotional maturation, and the learning [...]

A friend of mine who is a high school English teacher in our local schools has been perplexed by the behavior of some of her current students.  She said, “Help me understand why a third of my students can’t sit still in their desks?  They wiggle, they squirm, they tap their pencils and their feet [...]