NPR

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Rachel Dretzin's sometimes poignant film, inspired by Andrew Solomon's book, takes a narrowly focused look at kids who turned out differently than their parents thought they would.

Your Family

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Is your child always hungry? Are you buying them bigger clothes and shoes every six months? They may be going through a growth spurt. Prepare yourself emotionally and financially for the next two to three years, because growth spurts can last that lo

Best Self Magazine

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— Ever been on a road trip with a baby or toddler and stuck on what to do? If so, I’m sure you have experienced your own stresses and challenges. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Here are 5 tips on how to make the most of a car trip with young chi

Los Angeles Times

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At a few points in "Eighth Grade," Bo Burnham's sharp, sensitive and enormously affecting new movie, you might feel the urge to snatch the phone out of someone's hand and hurl it against the wall. (No, not the guy texting in the seat next to you, alt

Mother & Baby India

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We’ve all scowled at those mums ticking off their tots at the mall but before you become a mum yourself, it’s easy to judge other people’s parenting skills. You may vow do things completely differently when your mummy moment comes but it’s more than

Popular Science

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Here's how a few members of the animal kingdom handle the transition to adulthood. By the way, we were literally there when teen-hood was born. In a 1941 Popular Science article on young filmmakers, a source quipped, "I never knew 'teen-agers' could

The Atlantic

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A new book explores the dynamics of popularity, and the ways our high-school selves stay with us far beyond the teenage years.

Futurity

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While the US birth rate hasn’t changed for teenage girls in the last two generations, researchers have found that teenage parenthood has changed over time. The researchers analyzed parenthood, education, and income statistics over a long time span fr

The Atlantic

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In the beginning, the pandemic was a child-care crisis. School was closing today, and then maybe tomorrow. Who would leave work to get the children? Who had to cancel everything? Then it was clear that there wasn’t going to be school, for a week, may

Popular Science

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Kids aren't the only ones struggling to self-regulate their screen time. Deposit Photos Sleepless night and eyeball fatigue. Cyberbullying and profound device-separation anxiety. Research identifies harmful side effects of too much tech on teens with

The Christian Science Monitor

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After 18, teens move into a new, widely acknowledged developmental phase called 'emerging adulthood,' putting off traditional markers of the grown-up world such as marriage, children, and home ownership.

The Atlantic

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It’s ridiculous to claim that the Covington Catholic schoolboys are a symbol of what ails America.

NPR

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A new study shows students' self-image suffers in middle school and junior high. And it's not just hard on low-income kids. Having a teacher who understands the teenage brain can help.

NPR

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The new edition is in some ways like the retelling of a familiar tale for a new generation; but parts of the discussion that the book first inspired have moved beyond what an update can encompass.

Working Mother

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The right interactions can help your child develop at a high pace. Pexels There have been numerous research studies demonstrating that one of the most beneficial activities you can do with your children is consistently eating dinner together. The be

MASK The Magazine

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As I reflect on my kids, now young adults, I am so very blessed to have watched them evolve in every sense of the word. It has been a rollercoaster of love and anger, appreciation and entitlement, accomplishment and failure…but through it all, they a

MASK The Magazine

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I’ve been a parent for 24 years, my youngest being 14 years old now. Since I became a parent, I’ve had my time with my kids compromised by divorce, sports, friends, the challenging adolescent years, and by the Gameboy, back in the day. In all those 2

The Atlantic

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Students are generally capable of doing what public-health experts ask, but not all of them, not everything, and not all the time.

NEXT

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If we are every age we have ever been, then for much of my life I have been stuck in my stinky gothic phase. So, about 15, I guess. This manifests in a loathing for authority, inability to pay parking fines, sulking, difficulty in finishing things, w

Popular Science

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Teens may be works in progress, but they help society evolve. They're quite aware of what they're going through. Wikimedia Commons When the students of Stoneman Douglas High School started class on February 14, it seemed to be a Valentine’s Day like

MASK The Magazine

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How many of us get that glazed look and a shrug from our kids when we ask, “How was your day?” How many of us have endured closed doors, ear buds and secretive behaviors as our teenager struggles to claim their independence? I came from a large farm

The Atlantic

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Plus: Teen moms can affect their grandkids’ educational outcomes, and an IRL friendship formed in the “basement” of the internet

Your Family

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When teens misbehave to the extreme, they’re also missing out on just being kids. They’ve lost the connection to their soft side and cut themselves off from being nurtured. This is often the most devastating aspect of parenting a wayward teen, along

Fleurieu Living Magazine

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More recently, parenting has become something that many spend time agonising over, reading books, trying hard to do right and wishing to make amends for the wrongs personally suffered. We all fall short sometimes and have been quick to point out our

Pick Me Up

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Cathy Wassell is a business coach and owner of Socially Contented. She’s also an autism advocate and the founder of Teen Calm, a subscription box for anxious teens (teencalm.co.uk). Q I’ve been dating a guy for a year now but he won’t move in with me

Kiplinger

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Without exception, the primary concern for my clients with young children is to manage their inheritance so the children still strive for achievement rather than dwell in entitlement. My first question is just what they are doing now to instill those

New Zealand Listener

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Children are, without question, the funniest people on the planet and, as such, indispensable assets in the fight to stay sane during a pandemic. Our neighbour Abby, who’s five, rang our doorbell the other day and handed me a plastic bag filled with

Cruising Helmsman

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OVER the last few months I have been writing regarding the general public’s perception of sailing and how that perception may influence policy that may make it more difficult to enjoy our preferred recreation. In an age where it appears everything ha

NPR

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Stuck at home, with graduations and celebrations canceled, young people are feeling disconnected. Here's how to help them through.

Pick Me Up

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Cathy Wassell is a business coach and owner of Socially Contented. She’s also an autism advocate and the founder of Teen Calm, a subscription box for anxious teens (teencalm.co.uk). Q Last year, my dad cheated on my mum and it ruined their marriage.