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.

TIME

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If you’re worried about an adolescent and aren’t sure what to do, heed the advice of Fadi Haddad, a psychiatrist and the co-author of Helping Kids in Crisis

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

NPR

3 min read

After they lose access to high school sports, young women — especially young women of color — get less exercise than they should. And far less than young men.

OM Yoga & Lifestyle

3 min read

When I look back on my teenage years, the first thing I feel is nostalgia: thinking of how reckless and ‘free’ I was fills me with a sadness that I’ll never get that back But I think this is where I’m tripping up. The longer and harder I think on som

Pick Me Up

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Sue Tappenden is a coach and people expert who helps her clients improve their relationship with themselves and others. (www.headspaceforchange.com) Q My ex-husband has started dating someone new. I don’t want him back but I’m annoyed that he’s moved

The Australian Women's Weekly

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The adolescent brain is a strange and wonderful thing. We tend to think a lot about the impact of what teens are and are not doing – risky behaviour, not wanting to talk or hang out with their parents, and the dreaded ‘peer pressure’ – instead of wha

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

7 min read

The adolescent brain is a strange and wonderful thing. We tend to think a lot about the impact of what teens are and are not doing – risky behaviour, not wanting to talk or hang out with their parents, and the dreaded ‘peer pressure’ – instead of wha

New Idea

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Maintaining a tidy bedroom is often a low-priority task for teenagers – much to the frustration of their parents! Psychologist Dr Bianca Heng from Creating Change Psychology (creatingchange.net.au) explains that there’s a valid reason behind your te

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.

NPR

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Psychologist Jean Twenge has observed dramatic shifts in behavior among children who go through adolescence with smartphones. They're spending less time with friends and reporting greater anxiety.

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

NPR

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Instagram announced the tools designed for its youngest users and their parents a day before the app's head, Adam Mosseri, testifies to the Senate about Instagram's potential risks to kids and teens.

The Christian Science Monitor

11 min read

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

4 min read

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

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

Cairns Vibrance

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Teenage Wellbeing was a verbatim theatre project, supported by a RADF Major Round Grant, that was designed to encourage dialogue about and explore adolescent development. Fifteen teenagers from different high schools around Cairns were invited to par

Futurity

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Participation by youth of color in arts programming can enhance awareness of social injustice and increase engagement in social action, according to a new study. The findings also show that white youth who engage in arts programming experience greate

Futurity

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High school students who attended school remotely during the pandemic reported lower levels of social, emotional, and academic well-being, according to a new study. The findings held even when researchers accounted for factors like gender, race and e

Futurity

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Children and adolescents detained in the youth justice system experience poor health across a range of complex physical and mental health disorders, according to a new study. As reported in The Lancet Public Health, researchers examined the health of

Futurity

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Taking a walk in the park or just going out into nature could help teens and young adults feel better, according to a new survey. Public health policies that actively support time spent outside could help promote teens’ overall well-being. “Our findi

Futurity

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Electronic dating violence, including electronic harassment, coercion, and monitoring, starts increasing in preadolescence but curves as teens reach young adulthood, according to a new study. Researchers looked at the three behaviors in students in t

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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by Sophie Liard (Hachette, $39.99) Thanks to Marie Kondo, we have decluttered our homes by now if we wanted. So now it’s time to maximise storage space by learning to fold everything properly. UK TikTok sensation Sophie Liard became a folding guru d

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

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.

Futurity

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While suicide attempts decreased overall among US adolescents between 1991 and 2017, attempts among black teens rose 73%, according to a new study. “The rise in suicide rates among black youth can most likely be traced back to an internalization of i

Futurity

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Teen pranksters may have compromised data on the health risks and drug use of LGBQ young people, research shows. These “mischievous responders”—research survey respondents who mislead researchers by providing extreme and untruthful responses to multi

Kiplinger

3 min read

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

Futurity

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For Black youth, a police encounter by eighth grade predicts they will be arrested by young adulthood, but research finds the same is not true for white youth. Black young adults are 11 times more likely to be arrested by age 20 if they had an initia