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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?
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You often hear it said that ‘privacy is dead’. Our cybersecurity expert explains why that’s not true, yet.
Weapons and flames: this ‘dream car’ design by teenagers doesn’t include any safety features.
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Teenagers are more interested in gadgets and flashy desig in their first car than they are about safety features. So how do we make them think safety is important?
Square eyes = no prize.
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Teenagers spend one-third of their lives sitting down and three hours a day watching TV. New findings confirm that it’s not just their health that is at risk.
In a world of their own?
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Teenagers need to make friends outside their own cliques – and schools should help them.
The only bad influence was on the kids’ fashion sense.
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New research shows that depression doesn’t spread between teenagers but having mentally healthy friends can protect you.
Taking a vape.
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Fewer teenagers are taking up smoking, but one study has found a link between e-cigarettes and a potentially more dangerous addiction.
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Growing up is never easy – especially when your childish status updates are still online.