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Devious Licks Challenge

When I was high school, I remember the administration locking all the student bathrooms in an effort to get kids to stop smoking in school. It made for some interesting and difficult days. Recently, school administrators across the country have…
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TikTok Tics

Perhaps like me, you are scratching your head over the recent news reports about teenage girls who suddenly develop tics, jerking movements, and verbal outburst, which are usually symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome. As the story has unfolded, health care professionals…
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Screens, Exercise and Childhood Health

Sometimes research will confirm what our intuition has already told us. That’s certainly the case when it comes to kids and obesity. Researchers have been warning us for years that a child’s heavy use of digital media is associated with…
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TikTok and Vaping

Because of where they’re at in the developmental stage, our children and teens are extremely vulnerable to culture’s messages as they are engaged in the process of identity formation and worldview formation. These are the formative years where decisions are…
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