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Some tips to ease the transition: http://www.telegram.com/article/20120826/NEWS/108269952/1312 And a new app called csMentor– the “cs” stands for “college survival and success” – is a web-based program that combines video mentoring with regular check-ins to promote better communication between students and parents.  http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/29/new-app-updates-parents-their-students-progress#ixzz252ucyF8d And tips on how to stay in communication once they go to college: […]

In a new survey, 54 percent of students at private high schools said that drugs were available as compared to 24 percent of high school students in 2002,; 61 percent of public school students said that they noticed drugs on campus,  as compared to  45% saying their school was “drug infected” in 2002. http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112680588/teenage-drug-use-school-082312/

Data suggest that familial economic conditions contextualize the relative roles of parenting, sibling, and peer processes in the transmission of risk to adolescent delinquency http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/26/4/576/

This research shows that differences in  parent–child conflict among siblings predicted sibling differences in risky behavior over time. This raises a question of whether they both point to the same personality issues, or reveal a possible causality: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/26/4/523/

This study shows a link between parents’ marital problems and children’s sleep problems: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/26/4/488/