The wait is over.
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Why we should lament the sharp drop in the number of teenagers taking the one-year qualifications.
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What happens when games and social media infiltrate society to the point that we all become avatars and anonymous usernames?
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We’ve had enough studies suggesting that games are good for us. We need to start asking why.
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Teenagers are heavily influenced by what their friends eat, to the extent that they forget about their parents’ cooking.
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The high-school prom has been assimilated into British culture – but how far do ours deviate from the iconic American tradition?
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Conduct disorder is not just teen rebellion, as some experts claim. Brain scans suggest that it’s a psychiatric disorder.
Snapchat is a powerful tool for teens to communicate and experiment.
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The ephemeral social media platform Snapchat is a hit with young people. And while it can lead to risky behaviour, it can also encourage creative experimentation and socialisation.
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This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
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A book about drug addiction and prostitution aimed at ‘young adults’ was a very daring thing 20 years ago.
Sending children out of class isn’t an effective way to manage bad behaviour.
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Schools need to avoid practices that exclude badly behaved students and instead offer more ongoing, personalised support.
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We should fret less about what teenagers do with their phones, and spend more time talking to them about what the digital, connected future holds for them.
American classrooms do not talk frankly about teenage love or emotional intimacy.
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Sex education in American classrooms tends to focus on physical acts, disease and pregnancy. It provides little support to teenage boys for their need for emotional intimacy.
Shy teens are more likely to be included in group activities.
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The start of a new school year is the time when shy teenagers are least likely to be excluded from new friendship groups.
Weighing up risks and benefits.
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Commonly prescribed antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal thoughts in teenagers, so why isn’t this a bigger deal in drug trials?
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The young have a rich, linguistic vein – just don’t try and copy them.
Teenagers need nine hours sleep a night.
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Make sure your teenager doesn’t stay up all night.
Merely consuming digital content doesn’t do much for kids. But digital tools can introduce them to new ways of creating.
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Teenagers spend more time consuming media than they do sleeping. Most of this consumption is passive - a habit that’s creeping into classrooms, too.
Adolescence has always been hard, but there’s not much evidence to suggest it’s worse for kids these days.
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Many adolescent pressures are age old, others newer, such as having followers on social media.
Digitally stressed?
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Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
Can learning to write about sex help young people navigate their love lives?
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Sex is part of young people’s lives. So how do we teach young authors to navigate tricky narrative waters when they write about it?