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Another Casualty of the Financial Crisis: Extended Adolescence

Schuyler Brown | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescence, Advertising, Finance, Financial Crisis, Trends, Extended Adolescence, Generation Gap, Adult, Living News
Schuyler Brown

Slowly, painfully, we're leaving behind a dream of eternal youth and settling into a new idea about maturity.

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Different Friendship Styles For Boys And Girls: Study

TIME | John Cloud Friday, Jul. 17, 2009 | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Adolescence, Sexes, Sexist, Sexism, Psychology, Best Friend, Friendship and Gender, The Inner Life, Study, Gender, Living News

Pardon the sexism, but a question: Why are girls so girly? For the better part of the past half-century, feminists, their opponents and armies of aca...

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Kathryn the Great

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Living With Autism, Autism, Adolescence, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Living News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

Somewhere over the course of the last year, just like plenty of other boys his age, he fell deeply under the spell of a girl. Her name is Kathryn.

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Parenting: Don't Over-Worry About Your Teen

Psychology Today | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescence, Mental Health, Relationships, Teens, Parenting, Mothers, Troubled Teens, Teenagers, Worry, Fathers, Risk-Taking, Living News

The harsh reality is that their teenager can't grow up without taking risks, can't take risks without denying danger, and can't deny danger without cr...

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Right or Wrong: J.D. Salinger Wants Holden to Stay "Forever Young"

Susan Weissman | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescence, J.D. California, Catcher in the Rye, 60 Years Later, John David California, J. D. Salinger, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, Living News
Susan Weissman

This isn't about J.D. Salinger's right to legally block the publication of a Catcher in the Rye sequel, but about love and reading Catcher in the Rye for the very first of many times.

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Leave Them Kids Alone!

Alan Miller | Posted 04.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Childrens Health, Children, Sex Education, Sex, Texting, Teenagers, Sexting, Adolescent-Sex, Teenage-Sex, Adolescents, Parenting, Teen Texting, Teen-Sex, Adolescence, Overbearing Parents, Dirty Texting, Technology, Style News
Alan Miller

Our inability as a society to be clear about morality and sex these days, with adults increasingly seemingly incapable of holding the line about what is right and wrong in an age dominated by relativism means that often kids do not get clear enough boundaries.

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I Almost Forgot, I Hate Politics

Leighann Lord | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Childhood Memories, Obama Inauguration, Self-Esteem, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Junior High School, Memories, Teenagers, Politics, Elections, Self Esteem, Adolescence, Seventh Grade, Inauguration, High School, Middle School, Student Council, Politics News
Leighann Lord

In seventh grade, we set up my school's first student council. Being a shoe-in for valedictorian I naturally planned to run for president, until I found out that my best friend, Jennifer, was running too.

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Police Add Uncertainty to the Mix

Donald Liebenson | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Adolescent Depression, Scrubs, The Police, High School, Parent-Child Connections, Adolescence, Parenting, Mixtapes, Teenagers, Living News
Donald Liebenson

At parent orientation for incoming high school freshman, the principal encouraged us to get involved with our kids, to ask questions. So I sat my son down and, bracing myself, asked about the mixtape.

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