Tyler Jacobson
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Utah, United States
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Anxiety in Teens Can Develop into Avoidance Behavior
For teens with severe anxiety, life can get a little complicated as they may end up developing avoidance behaviors that prohibit them from normal function. → Read More
Manipulative Teenagers: Signs to Recognize and What to Do
Teens really know how to push our buttons. Just like toddlers, they want to get their way all the time, and they often come up with creative and ingenious ways → Read More
New Research Shows Screen Time Is Not Directly Increasing Depression or Anxiety in Teenagers
A new study seeking to establish a correlation between the time spent on social media and depression and anxiety in teenagers is causing ripples among both → Read More
Body Dysmorphic Disorder's Impact on Kids Today
The teenage years are hard on kids' sense of identity and self-esteem, especially as their bodies and minds are changing and growing at a rapid rate. As a → Read More
7 Common Mistakes Parents Make When Trying to Help Their Depressed Teen
Parenting is hard, and children don't come with manuals. There are lots of moments where parents make mistakes while learning the job of parenting. Then, when → Read More
How Parents Can Model Healthy Behavior for Their Kids & Teens
Parents want their children to grow up healthy, both physically and emotionally, but are unaware that the best path for achieving this is for them to model → Read More
6 Mental & Emotional Flaming Hoops You Jump Through for Your Kids
Few parents, if any, will say that parenting is a walk in the park. The truth is that parenting is real, raw, and involves a great deal of hard work. It's not → Read More
How & Why I Encourage My Teens to See a Therapist
Everyone needs a good therapist, that's my personal opinion anyways. We are comfortable taking our cars for occasional tune-ups, and we regularly scan and → Read More
7 Triggers that Get Teens Reaching for Their Phone When They Shouldn't
Parents everywhere are complaining that kids are using their phones way too much. They are glued to their screens at dinnertime, staying up when they should be → Read More
4 At-Risk Behaviors in Teens & What Parents Can Do
Teens are known to have a penchant for impulsivity and instant gratification. Even scientists have studied these habits and come to the conclusion that teen → Read More
Psychological & Environmental Components That Lead to Behavioral Disorders in Teens
Even the most well-behaved teens can have moments where they're difficult and challenging, pushing their parents' buttons and testing boundaries. → Read More
My Journey to Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder
The last thing you think about when adopting a child is that they might have a complex psychiatric disorder. When my wife and I were getting ready to adopt → Read More
Research Links Sleep Deprivation to Risky Behaviors in Teens
It's a battle that goes on in most households nearly every morning—the alarm goes off, and teens struggle to get out of bed while harried parents try to hurry → Read More
Could Your Child's Little Quirks Be Signs of OCD?
A friend of mine recently brought up a concern he had and was worried that he was overreacting. His son, who is friends with my youngest daughter, was beginning → Read More
You Can Help Your Teen Cope with Social Anxiety in Public Places
Social anxiety is finally becoming a more understood disorder. In the past, it was treated with less than stellar seriousness in both the professional and non → Read More
National Bullying Prevention Month: Help Your Kids Understand The Difference Between Bullying & Teasing
What makes a bully? Is it a malicious desire to hurt another person? A person lashing out because of problems at home? A need to seem tough in a world that is → Read More
Encourage Your Teen to Practice Self-Care
We have a serious problem affecting our teens and no one is talking about it. Every year, teens are facing a crisis thanks to an increase in pressure to be → Read More
Parents Guide for Disciplining Kids with ADHD
Receiving our son's diagnosis of ADHD shed light as to why standard parenting advice wasn't really working in our home. Understanding our son's non-neurotypical → Read More
Activities & Tricks to Help Kids Learn Key Social Skills
Seeing as most kids nowadays have their eyes glued on different types of screens, one might argue that social development is now more important than ever. Our → Read More
Increasing Your Child's Attention Span & Ability to Focus
Back in 2015, a survey conducted by Microsoft showed that people in this digital age have a shrinking attention span. In fact, sources like Time magazine claim we have the attention span of a goldfish. What a horrible thought! But it turns out that assertion may be just a fish story. The statistics on which this statement was based were too vague to be trusted. Our reputation for being more… → Read More