by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 1, 2017 | YPOP Stories
Laura is a young mom with two young daughters. Laura had a very fractured relationship with her parents during her adolescence. She moved out before finishing high school and ended up couch-surfing and hanging out with a few friends on the street. When she got...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Sep 23, 2013 | Advice, Featured Article, Health, Resources
You’re 19, officially an adult. Happy birthday. Now get out of the house. As parents, few of us would take such a brutal approach. Yet in our role as citizens that is exactly the style we adopt toward teenagers “in care” of the Crown — for whom...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 27, 2013 | Advice, Parenting, Resources
“How we are introduced to the world is how we are introduced to ourselves. If the world we are living in is highly chaotic or neglectful, unloving, or otherwise harmful or unstable, then we tend to turn that inward.” -Ally Jamieson, MSW Trauma can occur at...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Sep 29, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Efforts to combat school-aged bullying in Canada may be working – for boys. Girls, on the other hand, are experiencing an increase in the amount they are bullied, and finding it more difficult to cope with everyday psychological stressors. Unfortunately, the gap...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Apr 2, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Suicides are increasing at an alarming rate among Canadian girls, with hanging, strangulation and other forms of suffocation now the predominant methods used by children and adolescents – regardless of sex – to kill themselves. It’s a disturbing phenomenon that...
