In Chapter Nine, “The Pressure’s On,” SADD Chairman and Chief Executive Officier Stephen Wallace shares his perspective. Teens Today research by SADD found that what teens and their friends feel about themselves plays a significant role in whether they choose to drink or take drugs and make other unhealthy choices. Wallace offers five action steps to help teens make healthy lifestyle choices.
Where Should I Sit at Lunch? is filled with checklists, quizzes, and tips from a variety of experts. Parents, teachers, and guidance counselors will find it helpful as it provides an inside view of the lives of high school students today and can help start conversations about managing time and money or settle arguments about curfews and parties. Through the four years of high school, teens will keep coming back to this book for the information, ideas, and insights that help them keep their perspective, hang onto their sense of humor, and survive the most challenging days.
Where Should I Sit at Lunch? The Ultimate 24/7 Guide to Surviving the High School Years, Harriet S. Mosatche, Ph.D. and Karen Unger, M.A. $14.95/paperback
Succession offers “user’s guide” to small and family owned businesses through the stages of planning, employment. and ownership policies, shareholder meetings, family health emergencies, business planning, and alignment/engagement of employees. Covering both the positives and potential pitfalls inherent in the planning and implementation process, Succession represents a realistic roadmap to one of the more difficult periods of business ownership.
Stephen’s new book, IMPACT – An Introduction to Counseling, Mentoring, and Youth Development, offers insightful commentary on the important role of mentors in the lives of children and teens. While it specifically addresses camp counselors, it is equally relevant for all key youth influencers, including parents, teachers, and coaches. …
This is an important time in teenagers’ lives — when they will develop driving habits that can be good and bad. Parents need to take an active role in helping teens develop safe driving behaviors because teenagers are involved in more car accidents than any other age group. …
The Parents League Review is an annual literary journal with articles on parenting and education.
Child and Youth Development features eighteen articles that have been carefully selected from past editions of Camping Magazine, including Rites of Passage: Camp Pays Off in Youth Development, Happiness, Health, and Safety,” written by SADD Chairman and CEO Stephen Wallace. The contributing writers are recognized as authoritative voices in the field of child and youth development. Produced in cooperation with the American Camp Association. …
This new book gives high school students the inside scoop on figuring out who they are and where they want to go by offering teens the kind of comprehensive, down-to-earth advice they need and want. …
LOVE THAT BOY is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius—and what they truly need—grit, empathy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents. 
Reality Gap paints an alarming portrait of a modern-day adolescence filled with potentially deadly behaviors carefully hidden from the view of parents and other adults. But it is also a book about hope and inspiration, pointing to the incredibly powerful role that parents and other mentors can play in the lives of young people and highlighting the tremendous contributions that many teens are making to their families, schools, and communities. …