Teens Acceptance

Keeping in Touch After High School

June 1, 2010 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

An important aspect of school life is the need to keep in touch with your classmates after you graduate from high school. Alumni are an asset of every institution and often the graduates love to go back to their roots. Often students being too busy with the voluminous high school curriculum don’t get time to [...]

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12 Tips for a Stress Free Prom

March 26, 2010 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

Most parties and dances pressure young girls and boys. My friend’s daughter turned sixteen this year and she cannot afford to be seen in the same dress twice. The event is about impressing others and the dresses are either too trendy or something very different just to get attention from others. And this year it [...]

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Strategies to Decrease Ninth Grade Isolation

October 21, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

Strategies to decrease 9th grade isolation

For the majority of students, the ninth grade is a difficult one and is specifically tough for students that are at risk. Students are not at a comfortable stage of adolescence in the ninth grade. They are less structured and often lured into getting involved in bad behavior with the upper-class at high school where [...]

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Is Your Teen an Outsider in School?

September 17, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

Being a parent it is our responsibility in making things better quickly. Teens face the problems of school generally among which all of them are not bad. For a teen’s self-esteem it is good to face the problems and solve it, but sometimes it is a parent’s job to guide the teen in the right possible [...]

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Help Teen Adjust to New School and Country

September 15, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

Children of all ages find it difficult to accompany their parents on a move to a new country. It is difficult to adjust to a new school especially for teens. To become a new kid on the block is hard and then to adapt to a new country and above all a new curriculum with [...]

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Enjoy Your First Day of High School

August 7, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

When teens have to go back to school they get a little nervous about things like making new friends, who will be my new teacher, who will be on the new campus, will I be able to cope up with studies there and many more. A few steps to follow to make you comfortable when [...]

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6 Tips for Students Starting a New School

August 5, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

To start a new school again for high school students can cause anxiety and stress, which is normal. The anxiety takes place from what you don’t know or what to expect. The students keep thinking about various scenarios of the high school, racing thoughts and develop anxiety. 6 tips to help the high school student [...]

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Ways for Students to Learn about Different Cultures

July 29, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

The pressure on students to deal with the complex connections of racism is a major issue. Research is being done on teens to explore their understanding on cultural harmony in school and their world outside the school. An introduction of the multicultural class room is the best way to teach students to get along with [...]

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Advantages of a Good Relationship with the School Counselor

July 22, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

School counselors are very important in the student’s life. They provide counseling in career, academic, social and personal fields. A school counselor is a person who has been trained to help kids with their problems. They solve student’s social, emotional and behavioral problems, which help them in the future to develop a clear focus. School [...]

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Teenagers Discover Real Relationships in High School

July 1, 2009 by Dr. Patricia Fioriello

A relationship is a very common phenomenon which happens at any stage of our lives. The important thing is that an individual should be mature enough to understand the truthfulness in it. Adolescence is when we think that we are mature enough to understand the gravity of our relationships. Everyone is in love every time [...]

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