Five Challenges Facing Parents Today
From time to time my dad verbalizes just how difficult it is to raise children in today’s world. Like many older folks, he remembers the relative innocence of childhood back when he was raising his boys in the 1960s and…
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Kids Greatest Pressures
Over the course of my three decades studying youth culture, I’ve regularly asked parents about what they think are the greatest pressures facing teenagers today. Typically, parents will cite things like peer pressure, drinking, and bullying. What parents might not…
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Academic Excellence
If you’re a parent who’s concerned about your teenager’s academic performance, here’s some advice from the folks at the National Center for Education Statistics regarding factors that fuel high engagement in academic pursuits. Kids are more engaged with their school…
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Depression Factors
With stress and anxiety off the charts among our children and teens, it’s important that we understand some of the more common causes so that we might focus on prevention in order to have to focus less on intervention and…
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