Ah, the best parenting books of the year. Anyone can find those on Amazon in two seconds. I’ll spare you those important works. Instead what you’ll find on the annual Momma Data list aren’t necessarily the most popular or well-received parenting tomes of 2014. A few are well-known names or titles …
Last week NPR featured a story about middle schoolers and their use of smart phones, tablets and other digital devices. Last week I also happened to take smart phones away from both of my middle schoolers to rectify some off-putting habits, namely ignoring me. So when I heard even a …
Plenty of adolescent fare popped up in media this week including perennial favorites early puberty and the perils of screen time (in addition to smoking pot, depression and anorexia). I might have let these media darlings go but they kept re-appearing on my homepage and radio. I have two middle-schoolers, …
Add “emerging adulthood” to your concept of human development. Put down the basket of dirty laundry that I can only hope does not belong to your twenty-something living in the basement and try to think back to Psycholgy 101. Remember the theories explaining how humans develop from helpless infants to …
Who’s most likely to become depressed in adolescence? A. Young girls who exhibit depressionB. Young girls who exhibit anti-social behaviorC. Young girls who exhibit anxiety If you answered “A” – think again. Anti-social behavior and anxiety best predict adolescent depression in girls. Researchers at University of Wisconsin followed first- and …