Parenting Teens Through Their Problems

• Here's What They Want
When teenagers bring parents their problems, the response is to offer suggestions and solutions. Why do teenagers so often dismiss those ideas?

Protecting Against Sexual Predators

• Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators
Parents need to know what their children are playing online. Sometimes that means blocking users and shutting off chat functions, and sometimes it means monitoring the games as they are being played.

Preventing Teen Suicide

• Put Away the Screen & Go to Bed
Between 2007 and 2017 suicide has increased by 56% in 10 to 24-year-olds. Since 2011 youthful suicide attempts have increased 400% –– and that's an undercount. There is a compelling link between “problematic internet and social media use and sleep disturbance among youth,” and “these associations contribute to depressive symptoms in this group.”

If You Ever Hurt My Daughter

• I Swear I Will
Let her navigate her own emotional growth.

Smartphone Generation Statistics

• What Smartphones Are Doing To A Generation
iGen: a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media.

Just Say No

• Deleting Your Facebook and Instagram
From bullying to hacking, there's a lot of bad news about the social network and it's effect on children and adults alike.

Suicide

• Ask About It
"...people have the misconception that asking a person about suicide will increase the risk, but in reality asking does not increase the risk of suicide, but can save a life.”

Inattentional Blindness through Tech

• Head Down Interactions
More and more is we’re not talking to our children––we put them in front of the tech when they’re young and parents are absorbed in their own tech.

Taking Class Online

• Easy Passing Grade But No Gain
In so-called credit recovery programs, children who have flunked a course in an old-fashioned classroom pass the class online but to do quite poorly on subsequent tests of academic knowledge.

Put Away the Screen

• Ban Electronics in the Classroom

The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them.

Social Media

• Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
It's 10 p.m., do you know what apps your child is using? Here is a guide to what parents should be monitoring during this busy back-to-school season.

Screen Time

• Have Smartphones Harmed a Generation?
Advice for a happy adolescence: put down the phone, turn off the laptop, and do something—anything—that does not involve a screen.

Reaching Your Child

* Tips for Reconnecting
When a child is prickly and most difficult is when you need to try something else. Here are some options to make it work.

Mobile Social Media

• Intimacy & Empathy in the New Age of Media
The communication revolution is degrading the quality of human relationships—with family and friends, as well as colleagues and romantic partners.

Children At Risk For Addiction

• Personality Traits
Research identifies four risky traits: sensation-seeking, impulsiveness, anxiety sensitivity and hopelessness.

The Conflation of Psychopathy With Autism

• The Myth of the Autistic Shooter
The wish to hurt others is tied not to autism but to psychopathy.

The Teenage Brain

• Good Science Translated into Good Parenting
Frances Jensen writes A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults.

Early Puberty in Girls

• Sugary Drinks & Stress Contribute
Drinking more sodas and households with high levels of conflict leads to early maturation.

Suicide Prevention

• Talking About Surviving

Live Through This is a collection of portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors, as told by those survivors.

Sleep Deprivation

• Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit
Sleep-restricting lifestyles began getting more extreme in the 1990s, the decade with the explosion in A.D.H.D. diagnoses.