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To support the release of his new book, Reality Gap:  Alcohol, Drugs, and Sex – What Parents Don’t Know and Teens Aren’t Telling, Stephen recently conducted a 20-city radio tour, stressing the importance of effective family communication in helping youth to make healthy choices about alcohol, other drugs, sexual behavior, violence, and bullying. 

In response to the renewed debate over underage drinking, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) reemphasizes its stance in opposition to lowering the drinking age. SADD believes that lowering the current minimum-age drinking laws would likely do little, if anything, to reduce problematic drinking behaviors on college campuses and would contribute to the downward age trending

The Sunday Cape Cod Times says, “Grownups who care about kids should pick up this revealing compilation.”

Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist have already weighed in on Stephen Wallace’s Reality Gap, saying he “bridges the gap” and that his “hands-on research and in-depth interviews are tremendously useful, as are his discussions of the role of the media and the mixed signals gleaned from parents.”

Stephen’s new book, Reality Gap, has been officially released and is on sale in stores across the country.  Please check your local Barnes & Noble – or other bookseller – for your copy.  Of course, you can also order the book online at BarnesandNoble.com. Reality Gap arms adults with facts and strategies to help the

Stephen contributed to a Boston Sunday Globe story, “In connected world, camps can’t cut cord,” detailing the difficulties many parents face when sending their kids off to summer camp where they may not have access to cell phones or e-mail, thereby eliminating the instant contact they may be used to having.

Wallace releases new column on teen brains and decision-making, highlighting the neurological changes taking place during adolescence and early adulthood – and how those changes affect decision-making.

The new edition of Camping Magazine features the second of my two-part series highlighting SADD’s groundbreaking research on the influence of caring mentors in the lives of young people.  While Part I addressed camp directors, Part II focuses on camp counselors, seeking to broaden their understanding of the critical role they will play this summer.