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November 27, 2023 Do you wish you had fewer conflicts with your children involving screen time, homework, and chores? Would you like to eliminate the sense that you’re nagging by
October 24, 2023 Newsflash: Getting into college shouldn’t be any child’s central goal. Or so says Ana Homayoun in her new book, Erasing the Finish Line. I emphatically agree with
September 28, 2023 The U.S. surgeon general’s warning last May about the heightened dangers social media poses to young people’s mental health has understandably reignited many parents’ fears about their
June 28, 2023 In Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, 11-year-old Margaret learns a chant and exercise from her friend Nancy, the queen bee of 6th grade,
May 30, 2023 Educators have had growing and understandable concerns about anxiety, an emotion that gained significant attention during the Covid-19 pandemic. But in delivering a keynote address at this
April 27, 2023 In later years some further earsWere found in other forms.The more we know just goes to showThere are no real norms. –Portion of a poem by zoologist
March 29, 2023 Building Character When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it was difficult to find an article about adolescence that didn’t mention the uptick in anxiety among young people, including
February 27, 2023 Dr. Jill Walsh is a sociologist who studies how teens use digital spaces to shape their identities. In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, she explores how
News flash: Water is wet and middle school is an emotional roller coaster. Strapped into their seats, students experience the highs and lows of progressing through puberty and finding their
January 20, 2023 One of our earliest forms of narrative, long predating epics and novels? The cookbook. I love cookbooks for the stories they tell about who and what we