. This is the first in a series of new online tools and services the Partnership will introduce for parents this year. Through video, quizzes and role-playing, "A Parent’s Guide to the Teen Brain" helps parents navigate teendom by demystifying teen personalities and behaviors and offering tips and advice on staying connected with kids.
The site explains how the adolescent brain is still developing up until age 25, and how this knowledge can help parents understand why teens act the way they do. The site also offers easy-to-understand tips and tools for parents. Parents can visit the site and learn more on connecting with their teen to help them make good decisions.
The Partnership also released its 20th annual Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), a survey of parents’ attitudes about drugs and alcohol. This year’s survey was conducted among 1,045 parents and caregivers of kids ages 10-19 with a margin of error of +/-3 percent.
The key findings from this year’s study reinforce that becoming a teenager isn’t just a big transition for kids, but it marks a critical point of need and concern for their parents. As kids become teenagers, their parents’ need for information and help talking about drugs and alcohol peaks. At the same time, parents’ confidence in their own ability to influence their teens’ decisions about drugs and alcohol begins to wane.
In other words, when teens need their parents most—the years when they are most likely to be confronted with tough decisions about friends and social pressures—parents are feeling the least prepared to take the reins. This is also the time when parents start to feel conflicted about setting limits and rules and asking themselves: should I be a parent or a pal to my child?
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