Girls, Social Media, and Suicide
New research, reported in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, is telling us that as teens use of social media has grown over the last ten years, so too has the suicide rate among young people. Suicide is now the…
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Cell Phone Proximity and Grades
University of Pennsylvania Psychology professor Angela Duckworth has some great advice for parents that comes from the fruit of her research. Duckworth has been studying self-control in teenagers for several decades, and she has found that cell phones are now…
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The Plume Transgender Site
The digital age is combining with the high value our culture places on pursuing feeling-driven authenticity in ways that most of you will find absolutely unbelievable. A tele-medical services site called Plume has launched, touting itself as “redefining healthcare.” Specifically,…
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