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Website of Dr. Roger McIntire Psychologist, Author, Speaker

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Psychologist, Author, Speaker

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Teens 10 to 20: Question 1

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Question 1: How can I learn about what’s going on?  I suppose the “teenager stage” begins at about ten in the U.S. It blossoms early and develops rapidly probably because of so much adult experience—mostly secondhand— from TV, CD’s, mobile devices, social media, Facebook, talk shows and movies.  The average teenager in the U.S. spends over eight hours each day with computer companions, human or not, who pass along information, or misinformation, about life, sex, social … Read more…

College Visits, Getting Started

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High school students looking forward to their senior year cannot easily get excited about more school work after that. Yet for those considering college, the choices after high school require attention now. As associate dean for undergraduates at the University of Maryland, I met many students who at first resisted this idea of visiting colleges saying, “I don’t even know what I want to do.” But your student shouldn’t put off college visits because no … Read more…

Helping a Middle Schooler Get Started

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Excerpt from: Raising Good Kids in Tough Times Kids starting middle school next month take a big lonely step out on their own. With the challenge of new friends, values, and temptations, it may be the biggest culture shock of their lives. Yet parent involvement both at school and at home seems to taper off in middle school – just when it’s needed most. Most of the tragic stories of kids gone wrong at this … Read more…

How Parents Can Help With College

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Amy used her new cell phone to call home every week when she started college. Her Mom would respond, “Oh, Amy, I hope you are well. We miss you so much. Little Pam keeps saying, ‘When is Amy coming home?’” Amy endured the weekly tugs on the guilt strings for six weeks, then she came to my office to do the paper work to drop out. Her short college career was partly due to Mom’s … Read more…

Parents and Sheep Dogs Among Us

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Raising Good Kids in Tough Times By Dr. Roger McIntire We parents know sex is a big problem among our teenagers but too many of us hesitate to provide much information. We are afraid of what the kids will do if we tell them too much, but we all suffer the consequences of their ignorance. The percentage of women 15 to 20 who are sexually active is about the same across our country and in … Read more…

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Teens 10 to 20

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Teens 10 to 20

Grandma, Can We Talk?

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Teenagers & Parents: 12 Steps to a Better Relationship

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Staying Cool and in Control: a Behaviorist’s Guide to Parenting

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Dr. McIntire’s books are published by
Summit Crossroads Press
410-290-7058
E-mail: sumcross@aol.com

“We cannot prevent this world from being a world in which many children and teenagers are unhappy.
But we can reduce the number of unhappy ones. And if we don’t help, who else in their world will help them?”

Excerpt from Albert Camus (1948).
Translation (here modified) by Justin O’Brien, 1961.

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