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How to Find out if Your Adolescent Offspring is Using Drugs or Alcohol Focus on their eyes.  After your adolescent child comes back home from a get together, pay attention to the adolescent’s eyes. If the eyes are red and heavy-lidded, with constricted pupils, it is a sign of the adolescent having used marijuana. If the pupils of the eyes are dilated, and if he or she is finding it hard to focus, he/she has most probably been drinking alcohol.  Sniff it out:  Engage in a head to head discussion with your adolescent. If the adolescent has been drinking alcohol or smoking, a foul smell shall emanate from her/his breath, hair, hands and clothes. An atypical stench coming out of his/her room (like tobacco smoke), use of incense sticks or air fresheners to disguise other smells, it’s important to find out what’s going on. Frequent Mood Fluctuations:  If your teenager is noisy, loathsome & panic-stricken at some times & gauche, tired & withdrawn...

Why being an adolescent is hard nowadays ? Adolescence is a phase of life which is saturated with energy, hope, life, joy, beauty, and passion.  Today, it is easy to judge the generation of teenagers as being oversensitive, having feelings of entitlement, and being mollycoddled and pampered too much.  What we fail to understand is the dynamics of their bio-psycho-social factors as they are faced with challenges, that determine their reactions and responses.   It's imperative to understand and being considerate of the common teenage issues that can have an effect on an individual's lifestyle, behavior, emotional, and psycho-social well-being. Some of these are: Continuous revelation & exposure : While accessing the internet, adolescents gain access to a perennial flow of knowledge and information. Though teenagers can opt out of using it, it would be like telling them to remain confined in a room during their high school days, which is not pragmatic to s...