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01/30/2019

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Dear Friend of Brain, Child, I'm writing today with some exciting news. After six years of editing and publishing Brain, Child and Brain, Teen I am pl...

“Teenagers get a really bad rap and we mock them and demonize them more than we do any other section of society. And it’...
08/21/2018

“Teenagers get a really bad rap and we mock them and demonize them more than we do any other section of society. And it’s not right. They’re going through an important stage of their development that they need to go through...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s studies of the adolescent brain have won her awards. So when she says GCSEs are damaging to teens’ health, perhaps we should listen

Today’s 25-year-olds, compared with their parents’ generation at the same age, are twice as likely to still be students,...
06/04/2018

Today’s 25-year-olds, compared with their parents’ generation at the same age, are twice as likely to still be students, only half as likely to be married and 50 percent more likely to be receiving financial assistance from their parents.

Taking longer to grow up and settle down may be better for a young person’s brain.

Ultimately, the new study finds limited support for the idea that being able to delay gratification leads to better outc...
06/04/2018

Ultimately, the new study finds limited support for the idea that being able to delay gratification leads to better outcomes. Instead, it suggests that the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.

Affluence—not willpower—seems to be what’s behind some kids' capacity to delay gratification.

This was strikingly evident when I bought a mother-daughter journal. I was excited to write back and forth with her. She...
06/01/2018

This was strikingly evident when I bought a mother-daughter journal. I was excited to write back and forth with her. She found it pointless to write when we could just talk to each other.

I've learned that personality and communication style matter in the parent-child relationship, especially in the years from childhood to adulthood.

“Sadly, what parents want and what parents hope to gain from their children’s participation in youth sports is often at ...
05/22/2018

“Sadly, what parents want and what parents hope to gain from their children’s participation in youth sports is often at a significant extreme to what the kids actually want.”

https://nyti.ms/2IAsT0R

If children are to be successful at a sport, the drive to specialize and succeed must be of their own choosing.

Young people and their families go into debt because they believe that college will help them in the job market. And on ...
05/21/2018

Young people and their families go into debt because they believe that college will help them in the job market. And on average it does. But this raises a question: Does higher education itself offer that benefit, or are the people who earn bachelor’s degrees already positioned to get higher-paying jobs?

https://nyti.ms/2IE1xqE

For the poor, higher education may hurt more than it helps.

...the fear of being excluded by the peer group is a big driver of adolescent typical behavior...
05/20/2018

...the fear of being excluded by the peer group is a big driver of adolescent typical behavior...

Human brains are still developing throughout our teenage and early adult years. Knowing more about the way they work can teach us about how schools can work, too.

I suspect that she began cutting as a way to cultivate an image she wanted to convey: that of a hipster with a dark and ...
05/17/2018

I suspect that she began cutting as a way to cultivate an image she wanted to convey: that of a hipster with a dark and daring soul. But the allure of the cuts quickly spiraled out of control, becoming its own form of addiction and destruction.

By Laura Amann From a photograph on my desk, my daughter’s face peers out at me. Her eyes are crinkled; her chicklets-perfect teeth are held by a wi...

Prom may have started as an event for students at elite universities, but by the early 20th century, it had expanded to ...
05/15/2018

Prom may have started as an event for students at elite universities, but by the early 20th century, it had expanded to the high school level...

A look into the history of this teenage rite of passage.

The causes of that anxiety also include classroom pressures, according to Grados. "Now we're measuring everything," he s...
05/12/2018

The causes of that anxiety also include classroom pressures, according to Grados. "Now we're measuring everything," he said. "School is putting so much pressure on them with the competitiveness ... I've seen eighth-graders admitted as inpatients, saying they have to choose a career!"

Anxiety, not depression, is the leading mental health issue among American youths, and clinicians and research both suggest it is rising.

This post is from 2016, but certainly still relevant.Adolescence is a critical time in kids’ lives, when they need priva...
05/11/2018

This post is from 2016, but certainly still relevant.

Adolescence is a critical time in kids’ lives, when they need privacy and a sense of individual space to develop their own identities..."

For the past two years, Mandie Snyder, an accountant near Spokane, Washington, has been “monitoring” her daughter. With a handy…

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