What are some specifics that point to this issue?

• Educators are seeing that kids have difficulty when they don't earn the grade that want or when they have to deal with correction.
• Businesses are interviewing college grads who ask who they will be "in charge of." They want the corner office with windows. When they receive instruction perceived as critical, they feel rejected and do not handle it well.

What is meant by "the way your family interacts?"

• Researchers spent three years studying the relationship patterns of families and found a distinct relationship between certain family types and problems in school.
• The 3 distinct types of family relationships were categorized as:
  • Cohesive - Emotional warmth
  • Disengaged - Cold, controlling, withdrawn relationships
  • Enmeshed - Moderate warmth and emotional involvement AND hostility and meddling

After over 10 years of decline, marijuana use by teenagers is on the rise once again.

What are the facts?

• According to the University of Michigan's annual survey of 50,000 middle and high school students, 16 percent of 8^th-graders have smoked marijuana, 32 percent of 10^th-graders, and 42 percent of 12^th-graders.
• Even though pot is the least addictive of substances which are most often abused by teens, it can be extremely habit forming.
• It's a myth that marijuana users always progress to hard drugs, BUT studies have shown that very few teens develop serious drug habits without trying pot - or alcohol - first.

Why is marijuana use on the rise?