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Usually, this kind of worrisome behavior takes a parent a few months to digest well enough to begin to be concerned. Sometimes it could be nothing more than a temporary phase; at other times, you could have your hands full with the problem that plagues all of America, the problem to do with troubled teens.

For a teen to be somewhat nettlesome and withdrawn is one thing; for them to let their problem devolve so much that they need to lose themselves to truancy, violence or substance abuse is quite another. How do you tell if your child’s problem is heading for something serious? The thing is, a single isolated undesirable or rebellious act, does not point to troubled teenhood.

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