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  • Dad’s Impact on Teens

        Dad’s Impact on Teens Emily Halevy | CWK Network       “I think fathers will believe, well, now she’s 13, this is when I disappear, now her mother needs to take over, and I think if anything that’s when fathers really need to be present.” – Dick Bathrick, licensed marriage and family […]

  • Popular, Not Studious

        Popular, Not Studious Robert Seith | CWK Network       “It’s not exactly the cool thing. I mean people kind of look at you ‘you studied, why’d you do that.’“ – Taylor Matheny, high school senior –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources High school senior Taylor Matheny is […]

  • Mother – Daughter Dynamic

        Mother – Daughter Dynamic Yvette J. Brown | CWK Network       “A lot of it that has to do with, ‘Do I want to be like her or how can I be different and do I want to be different’?” – Judy Greenberg, licensed clinical social worker –   Related Information […]

  • Hispanic Dropouts

        Hispanic Dropouts Karen Savage | CWK Network       “Normally I see broken spirits – students who want badly to get a diploma, who want badly to be successful, because they have the same kind of dreams and hopes that other students have, but they don’t know how to set themselves up […]

  • School Involvement

        School Involvement Robert Seith | CWK Network       “ I see an increase in their productivity and their classroom activities. I even see them academically a tremendous improvement.” – Cathie Banks, academic advisor –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources When 16-year-old Drew Regitsky is at school, his […]

  • Bad Grammar

        Bad Grammar Robert Seith | CWK Network       “Like I want to be a doctor. And if you don’t act educated, people aren’t going to want to respect you, and they’re not going to trust you.” – Josh, 15 –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources Angelica and […]

  • The Emotional Side of Asthma

        The Emotional Side of Asthma Yvette J. Brown | CWK Network       “Just being a young teenager is difficult without adding asthma as a diagnosis.” – Robin Hyman, asthma educator –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources For Jacob Lee, living with asthma isn’t easy. “I get mad […]

  • Ethics Survey Contradictions

        Ethics Survey Contradictions Robert Seith | CWK Network       “ These little choices that we make, these little moral compromises can sometimes pollute our character, such as it becomes difficult as we move on in life as adults to do the right thing that we might want to do … because […]