I think the most challenging age for me was 16. My child was very reckless and rebellious. Marijuana was found in his drawer, he had been skipping school, started smoking cigarettes, and he was sneaking out of the house at night to meet up with his friends.
Something that was integrated into the Virtual Child program that we learned about in our textbook was substance use in adolescents and young adults. “Eighty percent of parents report concerns about children’s drug use.” (Brooks, 2013, p. 341) Our textbook also mentions that children that had a hard