Youth & Teenagers

What Parents Need to Know About Teen Sadfishing

According to experts, sadfishing and genuine expressions of sadness are both unsafe for teens that use social media.

Is Sadfishing in Teens Just Attention-seeking or a Real Cry for Help?

While some teen who sadfish may be exaggerating their feelings, most likely than not, their posts often reflect genuine sadness.

How to Develop Critical Thinking in Your Child

Teaching children critical thinking skills is a gift that's undoubtedly useful for their life. With this in hand, children will thrive.

Why is it Important to Develop Critical Thinking in Children?

Critical thinking is the bedrock of education and a crucial life skill. Children need it for everyday social and academic functioning.

Need to Help Your Teens Sleep Better?

Sleep deprivation can make it harder for your teen to regulate emotions, do well at school, pay attention, and behave and function well.

Common Causes of Sleep Problems in Teens

A nationwide survey shows that many parents have sleep-deprived teens at home despite the fact that good sleep is essential in adolescence.

How to Help Your Teen Get Through Heartache

Whether you're 13 or 63, breakups hurt. What's harder for teens is their self esteem isn't fully developed, so they're more vulnerable...

Understanding Teens' Feelings after Break Up & How to Help Them Cope

A breakup, whether a teen's first true love or summer fling, can be heart wrenching for someone young who is just learning about heartbreak.

How to Become a Better Parent to Teens?

Children's relationship with their parents and families changes during adolescence, but they still need parental and family support.

What is the Nature of Conflict between Parents and Teens?

During adolescence, parent-child conflict increases as a healthy adolescent seeks for more independence to grow...

Emotional Intelligence in Teens

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to understand your emotions and respond to them effectively.

Are We Paying Enough Attention to Boys?

A UN finding reveals that boys have fallen behind girls in every one of the largest seventy developed nations.

Understand SAD

SAD is a condition where a child becomes nervous and fearful when away from home or separated from a loved one.

SEPARATION ANXIETY in CHILDREN

Separation anxiety is generally not a disorder, but a normal part of a child’s development.

What Adolescents Really Need?

Recently, we’ve talked about the proverbial “limbo stage” in a person’s life called adolescence.

Why is Adolescent Health Important?

Adolescents are inundated by stress from different directions, made much worse by the socio-economic uncertainties brought by the pandemic.