Finding Balance: The Teen Brain, Teen Decision-Making, and the Parents' Influence
Recognizing and learning about how the brain changes during the adolescent years is the first step in understanding teen decision-making.
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- Jun 14
Why Teens Make Bad Decisions and How Parents Can Help Them
Teens are not to blame. Scientists found the areas of the brain that regulate decision-making don't fully develop yet until early adulthood.
- Dec 30, 2022
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.
- Dec 14, 2022
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.
- Nov 29, 2022
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.
- Nov 14, 2022
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.
- Sep 29, 2022
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.
- Sep 14, 2022
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.
- Jul 30, 2022
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...
- Jul 14, 2022
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.
- Jun 29, 2022
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.
- Jun 14, 2022
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...
- Jan 31, 2022
Emotional Intelligence in Teens
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to understand your emotions and respond to them effectively.
- Oct 31, 2021
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.
- Nov 30, 2020
Understand SAD
SAD is a condition where a child becomes nervous and fearful when away from home or separated from a loved one.
- Nov 15, 2020
SEPARATION ANXIETY in CHILDREN
Separation anxiety is generally not a disorder, but a normal part of a child’s development.
- Sep 30, 2020
What Adolescents Really Need?
Recently, we’ve talked about the proverbial “limbo stage” in a person’s life called adolescence.
- Sep 15, 2020
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.
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