The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet : NPR. How many times have you wondered “what your teen was thinking?”. This article explains the how teens are thinking, not the what they are thinking.
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This week at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco they interviewed a teen panel on what is cool and what they want on the internet. The video is very cute, but if you don’t want to watch the full 34 minutes fast forward to the end. Sometimes I wonder how they pick they kids [...]
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Once again it seems girls tend do better than the boys when it comes to adversity. According to a new study females are 4 times more resilient than males in overcoming adverse experiences. This is a study of very high risk teens who have been exposed to two or more of adverse events such as [...]
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Are parents totally out of touch today? In todays local paper on the front page is an article that at one of the “better” local high schools in an “upscale” area of the county is banning school dances due to student behavior. The article reads: “Yet many students and some parents argue that the school [...]
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Nebraska’s safe haven law allows parents to abandon their children without fear of prosecution and there has been much press about the children that have been abandoned. When the law was put into effect they were thinking it would help parents that could not provide for newborns or infants. They did not expect the number of [...]
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Troubled Teen Blog Book Give Away Chicken Soup for the Soul by Teens Troubled Teen Blog is excited to give away a copy of four Chicken Soup for the Soul books to four lucky readers. To be eligible for a free copy leave a comment on any post or sign up for the email alerts on [...]
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Teen Pregnancy The New Culture Is the recent public displays of contraceptive failure by teen girls giving the misleading appearance that teen motherhood might be a lifestyle upgrade? Is Brystol Palin’s pregnancy, the movie Juno and also Jamey Spears delivery glorifying teenage pregnancy? We worked so hard to lower this statistic, now are the standards [...]
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When I was younger you had to be 21 to vote and I am not sure when they lowered the age to vote, now one can vote at 18. What a gift, but how many 18 year old take the time to learn about the issues, candidats and register to vote? Do they even care? [...]
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