How to Get Along With Your Teen: Talking, Rules, and Conflict
Parents, do not despair. You are every bit as important in your teens life now as when they were younger.
Parents, do not despair. You are every bit as important in your teens life now as when they were younger.
William Grassie | Posted 12.10.2011 | Religion
At the Bar Mitzvah, I couldn't help but think that the tribe had done this young man a great service, literally surrounding him with family and friends expressing loving affirmation and setting high expectations for his future.
D. Yvette Shirey | Posted 12.09.2011 | Parents
Before you pop in the CD or turn on your media players, stop and listen to the radio and talk with your kids. I learn a lot every day.
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.21.2011 | Parents
The collation of obesity and bullying means that the very kids who may be struggling most to measure their self-worth with something other than a bathroom scale are being told daily not to bother.
Niobe Way, Ph.D. | Posted 01.14.2012 | Healthy Living
It's time we understand that being human and being a man should be one and the same; that the reason why we have survived for so long as a species is because we, men and women, care about others and respond when others are in danger and need our help.
Mark Redmond | Posted 12.26.2011 | Impact
In the early 1990's I was director of a 72-bed residence for teenagers just outside of New York City. From reading each youth's background information, I learned about the often- horrific circumstances from which most of them had come.
Laura Stepp | Posted 12.21.2011 | Impact
For much of the 20th century, scientists spoke of adolescence as a period of inevitable depression and rebellion. Beginning in the late 1980s, a different view began to emerge.
Linda Flanagan | Posted 12.19.2011 | Education
Bullies are universally loathed because their casual cruelty leaves a scar on your soul. But NJ's exhaustive law, which elevates everyday conflict into a state of emergency, seems both ill-conceived and a waste of scarce resources.
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.19.2011 | Parents
If you have teenagers, you may have established a system to keep them out of your liquor cabinet or wine fridge. But experts are now saying you should...
Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011 | Fifty
If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.10.2011 | Parents
Entering middle school is a big adjustment for both teens and for their parents. This transition can be particularly difficult for those who tend to be shy or who have to work harder at making new friends.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.02.2011 | Fifty
As someone well into my fifties, the popular aphorism "50 is the new 15" makes me laugh. Who are we kidding? Sure, being 50 today means something different than it did for our parents. But 50 is simply the "new 50!"
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.23.2011 | Parents
The results of a recent study indicate that every additional hour of sleep young children receive can reduce their risk of being overweight.
Christian Smith | Posted 11.16.2011 | Religion
We have come in America today to a very different world, which we might call liberal whateverism. This outlook reacts against sectarian conflict by dramatically discounting the claims of religion.
Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 11.08.2011 | Parents
Someone told me once that your child needs a cell phone when you need your child to have a cell phone. That makes sense to me.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.29.2011 | Healthy Living
Traversing the psychological terrain between teenage dependence and young adult independence is fraught with anxiety, confusion and fear.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 09.27.2011 | Impact
Being a real man means saying no to gender-based violence and discrimination, and respecting the rights of girls and women.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 09.05.2011 | World
As a former Minister of Health in Nigeria and now head of a United Nations agency, I have come to one inescapable conclusion: if we are to tackle the consequences of growing populations, we need to invest in adolescents and young people now.
David Moshman | Posted 08.29.2011 | Technology
Video games, noted the Court, resemble "the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them" in that they "communicate ideas -- and even social messages."
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 08.20.2011 | Healthy Living
Some day, ideally, we will convert the world we live in to a place where eating well and being active are the norm for us all.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 08.13.2011 | World
World leaders gathered at the United Nations to mark the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Adrienne Germain and Alexandra Garita discuss the declaration and the controversies that arise whenever sex is a key part of an agenda.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.23.2011 | Style
The low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. What we are looking at here are simple ratings of attractiveness by interviewers whose tastes differ rather strongly.
Marianne Mollmann | Posted 07.17.2011 | Politics
The United States has a long way to go to ensure access to age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education and modern contraception.
David Moshman | Posted 07.17.2011 | Healthy Living
A 2006 cartoon in The New Yorker shows parents ordering their adolescent son to go to his room until his cerebral cortex matures. This nicely illustrates how we have come to think about adolescents.
Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
By superficially labeling girl's and women's actions, Laura Sessions Stepp misses the larger implications and trivializes women's behavior and relationships.
Shannon Kellogg | Posted 01.10.2012 | Parents