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	<title>Simi Therapy Tools for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress &#187; Teens</title>
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		<title>Check out Values.com for inspirational stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a great commerical on TV just now, about bullying in high school, and went to the website. It&#8217;s full of TV spots, quotes, personal stories, and all sorts of other things &#8212; all based on various values. Check it out &#8212; I was impressed. Here&#8217;s the commercial I saw. It really warmed my [...]


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		<title>Bad grades on report card? What to do next</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/bad-grades-on-report-card-what-to-do-next/977/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/report-card.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Report card grades" title="report card" /></a>Fall semester report cards are coming! This is a very important time to evaluate your child&#8217;s situation at school. If you see a &#8220;bad&#8221; report card, and you&#8217;re not sure what to do next, here are some good ideas on &#8220;Dealing with Disappointing Grades&#8221;. If you want to delve further, here are links to two [...]


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		<title>Teens and young adults vs the job market</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career and jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a tough time to be a teen or young adult.  If you are a parent, you probably remember how easy it was to find a part-time or summer job.  And for those of us who went to college, the sky was the limit!  Once we got that diploma, there was no end to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/social-skills-group-for-aspergers-teens/763/' rel='bookmark' title='Social skills group for Asperger&#8217;s teens'>Social skills group for Asperger&#8217;s teens</a></li>
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		<title>Social skills group for Asperger&#8217;s teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you know a teen or young adult with Aspeger&#8217;s in Ventura County, here&#8217;s some great news. There are free social skills groups for teens and young adults, ages 12-28, in Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura. And one for adults 30 and older is forming in Ventura, as well. They aren&#8217;t run as a therapy [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Bath salts&#8221; and &#8220;plant food&#8221; &#8212; latest drug problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction and recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know about MDPV? It&#8217;s the acronym for methylenedioxypyrovalerone or mephedrone.  What&#8217;s that?  These are ingredients in legal, easy to buy stimulant hallucinogens that can kill, directly or indirectly. Their street names are &#8220;bath salts&#8221; or &#8220;plant food&#8221; because that&#8217;s what hey look like, and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) hasn&#8217;t gotten around to [...]


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		<title>How to help your child make friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in grade school, I had a few very close friends, but I always wished I was more &#8220;popular&#8221;. In 7th grade, there was a typical &#8220;friend drama&#8221;, and for awhile those particular friends didn&#8217;t like me. It wasn&#8217;t fun, and I was lucky that it resolved itself, because I surely didn&#8217;t know [...]


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		<title>Cyber-bullying: do you know what it is?</title>
		<link>http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/computer_girl.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="computer_girl" /></a>If you think the term bully refers only to the “mean kid” at school, think again. These days, bullying has risen to a whole new level, thanks to the internet, cell phones, and our whole “wired-in” mentality. Because words spread like wildfire over the internet, cyber-bullying is a far more damaging phenomenon than that “mean [...]


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		<title>Football &#8212; read before playing (or signing up your son!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/football-read-before-playing-or-signing-up-your-son/517/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Wilsonnflfootball.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Picture of generic football, GFDL, that Future..." title="Picture of generic football, GFDL, that Future..." /></a>We keep reading more and more about how seemingly minor head injuries can cause major trauma to the brain.  At the risk of offending the entire football playing community of parents, I am posting this link to Time Magazine&#8217;s article from 1/28/10. It talks at length about the long-lasting problems that cumulative concussions can cause.  [...]


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		<title>Active kids sleep better &#8212; common sense wins again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article in a recent Parade magazine that quotes a recent study in the professional journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.  The sy looked at 600 7-year-olds in New Zealand, and found that the average time to fall asleep was about 26 minutes.  However, for every hour of inactivity in the day, it took [...]


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		<title>How to raise a competent young adult &#8212; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this final article, let&#8217;s take a look at what helps a young adult assume the necessary responsibilities of adulthood.  Most teenagers like to focus on the privileges they assume they&#8217;ll have once they turn 18.They often think that their parents will remove all curfews, let them go wherever they want, and in general become [...]


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