Kids TV and Transgender
Just a little over a year ago, the Nickelodean network premiered a kids show called Danger Force, which is a spinoff of the older Henry Danger kids series. Danger Force follows the adventures of some young super-heroes in training. The…
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Teen Styles and Morality
When generational styles collide, we tend to turn personal taste and style issues into moral issues in an effort to keep our kids from altering their appearance in a way that we either find embarrassing or wrong. Like it or…
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Teens and the Search for Identity
The stereotype of teenagers back in the hippie days of the 1960s remembers kids as oftentimes talking about trying to “find myself.” While today’s teens rarely if ever hitchhike to California as part of that quest, the single most important…
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Identity and the Peer Group
In her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain, Sarah Jayne Blakemore reminds us that for teenagers, what she calls the social self becomes central. A teen’s social self is all about expressing who you and how…
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Family TableTalk – Conversation 98
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Willow Smith and Polyamory
Twenty-year-old Willow Smith is the hit-music-making daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Popular among our children and teens, she is one of today’s influencers regarding belief and behavior. Back in 2019, she came out as bisexual. Just recently,…
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Teens and Identity Formation
One of the main developmental tasks of adolescence is identity formation. Teenagers are living through a period of life where they are trying to find answers to one of the most basic of all questions: Who am I? Consequently, we…
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