NPR

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Though author Melissa Febos' essays dip into her adult life, they keep trying to find the child and teenager that she was — how she learned to be, feel, believe, and react.

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

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

Your Family

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Empty threats will teach your kids not to take you seriously and that you can be manipulated or waited out. Eventually, they’ll start to filter out your attempts at discipline and consider you untrustworthy. Going back on your word leaves you open to

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.

New Idea

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Psychologist Dr Justin Coulson says a good starting point is being upfront about how they make everyone feel uncomfortable. “Say, can we have a chat about one of those really embarrassing topics no-one really wants to talk about but it’s really impo

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

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - About half of American teenagers have never visited doctors without a parent or guardian present, despite recommendations that such visits begin about age 13, a study led by a Chicago researcher shows. Dr. Jon Klein wanted find whether the

TIME

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Parents’ love for their children can make them do peculiar things. Like staying up until 1 a.m. gluing glitter on a second-grade class project. Or driving 40 miles to deliver a single soccer cleat. Or, perhaps, bribing their teenagers’ way into a fan

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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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

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

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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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.

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

Who Do You Think You Are?

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In 1935 my maternal grandmother Joyce’s family the Dennesses won the local carnival in Strood in Kent. Here are her parents James and Frances with James’ mother Suzannah. Here Joyce is wearing my grandfather Ross Peters’ Second World War uniform. J

Sunday Independent

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ABANDONMENT in Mzansi is one of those very sore issues in many communities that leaves lasting scars in the victims. In a bid to tackle the issue, Mzansi Magic's newest show, Abandoned seeks to delve straight to the importance of South Africans knowi

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

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

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

Working Mother

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From Left, Tiffany, Brandon, Tia, Briana, Michele. Photo: Synchorny AVP, HR Operations ; Mom to Tiffany, 10, Michele, 11, Briana, 16, Brandon, 20 Tia has overcome several obstacles in her personal and professional life. She is a single mother of four

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

NPR

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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.

Global Voices

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Mahila Swarojgar Samiti is helping teenage girls in Varanasi shape their identity and find more confidence in their sexuality through football.

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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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

Amateur Photographer

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REGULAR readers will know that AP is a strong supporter of projects which use photography to help improve all aspects of people's lives. As children and young people go back to school this month, Jude Wacks, a London-based photographer, is looking to

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