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One Strip-Search Too Many
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
How many of us are willing to send our preteen and adolescent kids to school each morning, open to the possibility that they may be strip-searched for Tylenol?
Are Single Sex Schools Good for Girls?
Susan Sawyers | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
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It turns out that graduates of all-girls high schools show stronger academic orientations and higher levels of confidence in their math and computer abilities than their coed peers.
Rutting Teens...It Must be Spring
Jane Minogue | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style
They were doing it in the spring sunshine yesterday afternoon. A young boy and girl were doing it on a chaise down by the pool area that we share with about 30 other homes.
Who Needs the Brothers Grimm When We Have Teen Screen?
Anne Dunev | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living
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The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.
Leave Them Kids Alone!
Alan Miller | Posted 04.11.2009 | Style
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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.
How Much is too Much Pre-Teen Text?
Donna Fish | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living
As a parent, you can give children tools to help them navigate their expanding social world, with the ability to disconnect, take their own space, and remain connected to you.
GenArt Film Festival
Kelly O'Reilly | Posted 03.20.2009 | Entertainment
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New York's GenArt Film Festival (GAFF), in its 14th year April 1, 2009, does a good job of delivering equal parts film and festival to the common man and woman.
"Mommy, Are We Poor?"
Kari Henley | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style
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The recession is impossible to escape these days, and many families are hugely impacted. How are your children reacting? Do you have stories of kids rising to the occasion?
I Want to Get Rid of Tony
Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living
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Every day between 12:36 and 1:31, Tony's behavior ties up a good chunk of my class. There's his late entrance. His refusal to sit in his assigned seat. His refusal to read quietly.
Skins on The BBC
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 03.07.2009 | Entertainment
The show has been quite controversial, apparently British teenagers now throw 'Skins parties' where they do drugs and have sex.
RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
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Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.
Feeling Normal?
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style
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I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"
Afghan Stars at Sundance
Havana Marking | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment
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Last Saturday night, we were presented two awards by the good people of Sundance. it was the first time an Afghan film had made it there, and the people of Afghanistan were over the moon.
Thank You Robert Redford, and I'm Sorry
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green
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While other celebrities sit at home counting their money, you have used your fame to make the planet better, as did your good friend Paul Newman. Thank you!
Red the Book: Ticket Snubbed at the Inauguration
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
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We held up our purple tickets to prove that we all deserved a place on the other side of the gates, and watched with envy as anyone who made it through ran in with joy.
Bringing Service Back: Why Obama is Better than Prozac for Today's Adolescents
Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
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Barack Obama is bringing service and community back to American youth and this is good for the country and good for kids.
I Almost Forgot, I Hate Politics
Leighann Lord | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
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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.
Facebook, Relationship Statuses, and the Demise of Feminism
Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
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Why isn't it enough to define our relationship with our partner? Why must we formally legitimize our relationships for the greater public? Is it really anyone's business?
Getting Down to Risky Business: Response to Recent Survey Findings Regarding Teens Divulging Risky Business Online
Dania Sacks March | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
If, as adults, we aren't changing our behaviors, with our nice, tidy, developed pre-frontal cortexes, then how can we expect teens to do it?
Have an Underperforming Teenager?
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living
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Take a deep breath./Stop reacting from your frustration/and read what follows below.../Does it sound like someone you know?
Rescue the Children Along with the Bankers
Walter Dean Myers | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
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We have even stronger numbers than we did with the sub-prime mess to know that far too many of our children are headed into the world totally unprepared to become productive citizens.
Afflatus: It's Elusive to Me
Margot Rogers | Posted 01.17.2009 | Living
Sure, we'd all love to have a book published. But few of us really want to expend the energy. And even fewer are lucky enough to have afflatus!
Why They Cut
Aimee Liu | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living
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Frustratingly few media accounts of self-injury ever address the fundamental reason why people hurt themselves when they're distressed.
SNL Star Amy Poehler on Her New Online Show "Smart Girls"
Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
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AP: The idea came out of us wishing we could go back in time to the younger versions of ourselves and let them know it was gonna be ok. My goal is to be the Edward R. Murrow of girls.
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