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ScottCounseling.com was created to serve you and provide solutions for your everyday problems.  ScottCounseling has trained, licensed, professional counselors available to assist you with options that will successfully bring about a solution for your counseling need.  ScottCounseling has help hundreds of individuals with questions about:

Children and Teens  Anxiety  Marriage  Depression  ADD/ADHD  Academic and Schools

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You may be a parent that has spoken to your child about avoiding the use of drugs and alcohol. This is an important first step to keeping your child safe and chemical free. Below are some other steps that you can take to ensure that your child is not drinking, smoking or abusing drugs.

Establish a loving relationship

Long before your child has the whereabouts to begin experimenting with alcohol or drugs, it’s important to establish a relationship that is open, caring and loving. Tell your child daily that you love him or her.

Be a role model

Set a good example regarding you own use of alcohol and chemical use or abuse.

Family Rules

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Depression during pregnancy or after the birth of a child affects less than 1% of the population. If this population includes you, this affliction may seem hopeless and life changing. Like other forms of depression, there is a cure. Women suffering from depression before (perinatal) after a pregnancy (postpartum), should seek help from their medical doctor with optimism that this disease can be cured.

Some women may be hesitant to tell someone about their symptoms because they may feel embarrassed, ashamed or even guilty about feeling depressed during a time when most parents are joyous. You may worry that you will be viewed as an unfit, or unloving parent… Continue Reading

Got a Si                        

Medicine are suppose to make our children feel better.  More and more news articles share horrifying stories of medicine mishaps and overdoses.  All drugs can be harmful if used inappropriately.  

When it comes to giving medicine to your child, here are 10 factors for parents to consider:

1. Read and follow the label directions every time. Pay special attention to usage directions and warnings. If you notice any new symptoms or unexpected side effects in your child or the medicine doesn’t appear to be working, talk to your doctor or pharmacist immediately.

2. Know how much medicine to give and when. Read and follow the label.
Know the abbreviations for tablespoon (tbsp.) and teaspoon (tsp.). You should also know: milligram (mg.), milliliter (mL), and ounce (oz.).

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Nation news reports on on four major news networks and the popular cable news networks all shared the following information regarding teenage girls in the United States:

1 in 4 Teenage Girls has a Sexually Transmitted Disease

Two days later, the story was gone!  In the meantime, 3.2 million female teenage girls in the U.S. are carrying a sexually transmitted disease (STD).  Is your child affected?  One parent whom I spoke with said, “No, I have boys.  Thank goodness for that!”  News alert!… if 1 in 4 girls are carrying a STD, than the boys are at risk too.  This article that was published by the CDC in March, 2008, should not cause parents to become over-reactive, but should  be a catalyst for… Continue Reading

Study Shows  Youngsters Use Inhalants as “Gateway” to Other Illicit Drugs

Author, Kelly Colihan, shares some alarming trends in preteen and teen use of inhalants ( Drugs administered by breathing in its vapors. Most inhalants are organic solvents such as glue and paint thinner or anesthetic gases) as “gateway” drug to other illegal and illicit drugs. Ms. Colihan and other child behavior experts share present date taken from over a half a million 12 through 17 year old student from across the United States. Child development experts are seeing increasing trends in younger children beginning to experiment with household products that include paint thinners, spray cans, glues and other toxic products to “get high.” The purpose of this article is… Continue Reading

Protecting your child from the flu…

As more and more parents share their growing concerns of influenza, also known as the “flu,” some hospitals and clinics throughout the United States have period of time when they are inundated with parents seeking the flu shot for themselves and their children.  Some studies indicate that as many as thirty thousand U.S. citizens die each year from influenza.  Although many of these individuals are seniors or younger children (some with other preexisting medical conditions), some are healthy individuals who become violently ill due to this disease.  Parenting children who are healthy and, for the most part, virus free during most of their childhood is scary enough when you consider all the situations they are faced… Continue Reading