Top High School Survival Tips for Parents

• Help your child to be interested and enthusiastic about high school.
• When in doubt, ask for help!
• Help them to be here. On time. Everyday.
• Encourage students to make good choices!
• Get involved!
• Help them self-advocate.
• It is never too early to think about college, Day 1 of high school counts! 

Mental Health Resources List

Articles:

• Can a change in mindset help a child destress?
• Normal Teenage Behavior or Mental Health Issue? Know When to Seek Help
• The Jason Foundation Youth Suicide Prevention Program
• It's Okay if You're not Okay about COVID-19: Understanding how the public health crisis affects our mental health
• Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope with the Coronavirus Disease 2019
• Supporting Learning from Home: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers 
• How To Talk - And Listen - To A Teen With Mental Health Struggles
• How to Help Someone who is Suicidal 
• A-Z Topics from the Child Mind Institute
• The Difference Between Being Sad or Disappointed and Being Clinically Depressed

Blogs:

• In Between Years
  • Times are different. Developmentally, teenagers haven’t changed much, but the world sure has. A host of pervasive forces influence the lives of teenagers, and we just want to make sense of their experience growing up in today’s world. Through a quest to understand the adolescent experience, we hope to offer new perspective that helps you support a teen you care about.
• Connecting With Your Teen Through Pop Culture
  • This is the place to go if you want to keep abreast of all things pop culture and how it relates to raising teenagers. Jennifer Wagner seems to know about every movie, TV show, computer game, and gadget that has, or is about to be, released.  Her posts are easy to read and she is always thinking about how to use pop culture to build relationships with teenagers.
• Talking Teenage
  • This is a blog written by Jennifer A. Powell-Lunder, Psy.D & Barbara R. Greenberg, Ph.D. As their titles suggest these are two seriously qualified ladies who have spent most of their careers studying and working with adolescence.  The great thing about this blog however is that is how simple, practical, and fun their content is.  They provide really wise and sensible insights about everyday issues that parents and teenagers face.  This is reliable and accessible info. Check it out.

Books:

• Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
• Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World by Rosalind Wiseman
• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

Paying for College Books to Read

• Paying for College Without Going Broke, 2018 Edition: How to Pay Less for College (College Admissions Guides) 
• The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2019: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes 
• Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents 
• Countdown to College: 21 'To Do' Lists for High School 
• College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step 
• Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania 
• Fiske Guide to Colleges 2019