TEENAGE INFORMATION

by Candice Paulton
(United Kingdom)

Although your website is supposedly mostly aimed at the subject of adoption, I've found it to have much needed information about raising kids, and for my specific requirements, teenagers.
When your kids reach this critical mind-bending age, it really is frightening, isn't it?

I'd like to hear from other mothers about their problems with their teenage children and in particular about trying to handle teenage drinking/smoking. Should we worry so much about it or is it just a phase that they're going through?

Is there anything else we can do besides talk and talk to them about good values? What do you do?