Secure Your Home

How would you rate the emotional environment in your home? Do people openly express positive emotions? How about negative emotions (especially toward people uninvolved in creating those negative emotions)? Do the people inside your home speak to each other respectfully? Do you speak respectfully about people outside the home? What about hand gestures and facial expressions? Here are the facts: negative emotions are contagious, and they can infect teens. Take a step back and do a secret week-long assessment. Make sure your home is healthy so your teen can learn to self-regulate their emotions.

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