Teens Making Meaning: A Lesson from The Shawshank Redemption
By Deborah Walsh Dobbs, M.A. | Contributor Last year, the movie The Shawshank Redemption (based on Steven King’s novella) made a comeback. Set inside a
Category : Tweens Teens & Twenties
Talking So Your Teens Will Listen
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. | Contributor Every parent of teens knows how difficult it can be to get through to them, but it doesn’t have
BFFs No More: Helping Teens Through Friendship Breakups
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. | Contributor Friendships between teens can be fickle: one day they’re the best of friends; the next day one of them
How to Get Your Teens to Talk to You
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. | Contributor Every parent of teens knows how difficult it is to get them to talk. If they’re not in the
How Selfies Help Adolescents Form an Identity
By Children’s Health | Contributor In the past, adolescents expressed themselves through how they dressed, what music they listened to and what group they sat with at
Three Tips to Help Boost Your Child’s Body Image in the Digital Age
By Children’s Health | Contributor Photo editing and airbrushing are not new technologies – but today’s popular apps mean that altered images are no longer
How to Build Resilience and Confidence in Teens and Tweens
By Erica Rood, M.A. Ed. | Contributor If ever there was a year when teens and tweens faced new and unusual life experiences, 2020 is
Student Safety Information: What you should know about the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why”
Based on the popular novel of the same name, a new online series produced by Netflix called 13 Reasons Why dramatizes bullying, depression, sexual assault and suicide
Protecting Our Kids
How Much is Too Much? by Dr. Dean Beckloff | Contributor Yeesh! Is it hard to be a parent! With our tweens or teens,
