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Barry County Ysb: How to Teach Decision Making Skills to Adolescents [Pdf]
A parent guide to a better understanding of the adolescent mind, and the steps to follow in order to help them to make good decisions. The process helps parents develop more trust in their adolescents, and helps teens achieve more...
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Sutter Health: Helping Your Teen Make Responsible Choices
Some parenting tips for communicating with a teen to help them learn to make good decisions. Emphasizes the importance of building mutual respect, and talks about the issue of peer pressure.
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Mental help.net: Motivating Adolescents Toward Responsible Choices Part Ii
Part II of this article describes tools a parent has for guiding teens to make good choices, and the importance of being there for your teen to help them weather the inevitable storms of adolescence. (Published: Feb. 3, 2015)
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain
Ninth graders read National Geographic's "Teenage Brains" by David Dobbs and various informational texts about the development of the teenage brain to understand the factors that ultimately dictate teens' decision-making and behavior.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Effect on Teen Behavior
Ninth graders read three informational texts to gain an understanding of how adolescent brain development influences teen behavior.