by HomeOfEighT8 | Mar 14, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Teenage pregnancy is associated with health challenges and health risk behaviours. However, promoting protective factors in the lives of young people who are involved in a pregnancy may help foster healthy development. This is the conclusion from the recently released...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Feb 29, 2012 | Parenting, Resources
According to new research released from UBC, babies born to depressed mothers acquire language skills at a slightly different rate than do babies of non-depressed women. Not only that, but the children of women treating their depression with serotonin reuptake...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Health, Parenting, Resources
Every year millions of kids deliberately cut their own skin, desperately looking for relief from overwhelming stress, anxiety and insecurity. Learn what’s behind the self-injury problem and how parents can stop the pain. Caia Pattynama hesitated the first time...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 4, 2011 | Advice, Parenting, Resources
Duane Sergeant and Easter Johnson feel trapped. For nearly a year-and-a-half, the young teen couple has shared a single room and a double bed with their two small children in the Jackson Avenue Family Residences, a homeless shelter in the South Bronx....
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 4, 2011 | Advice, Parenting, Resources
Parents and Teens often find themselves in conflict with each other. Parent Teen Mediation is a helpful alternative that promotes healthy communication between Parents and Teens about their issues. Parent Teen Mediation offers a family system faced with conflict with...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Aug 9, 2011 | Advice, Pregnancy, Resources
Cranbrook has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in British Columbia and it sits considerably higher than Canada’s rate. One out of every 25 women aged 15 to 19 will become pregnant, according to BC Stats, which lists Cranbrook’s rate of teen...
