Articles and Videos
Sleep
Why Do We Sleep? Scientists Find Brain Repair Mechanism
How to Help More Teenagers Get More Sleep
Why Are Teenagers So Sleep Deprived?
Teens and Sleep: The Cost of Sleep Deprivation
When Your 200 Month Old Can’t Sleep Through the Night
The Most Fascinating Thing That Happens in Your Brain When You Are Sleeping
Eight Ways to Help Teens Get More Sleep
Our Brains Benefit From Sleep. Here’s Why, and How Many Parents Can Help Teens Get Plenty of It
How Sleep Deprivation Hinders Memory
For Teens, A Good Mood Depends on Good Sleep
Screen Time
Managing Social Media Stress With Mindfulness
At Your Wit’s End With Your Screen Obsessed Kid?
How Parents Can Model Better Screen Time Behavior For Their Kids
The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens, and Mental Health
How Intrinsic Motivation Helps Students Manage Digital Distractions
This is the Most Powerful Way to Make Your Life Fantastic
Teens Explain Their YouTube Obsession because Adults Don’t Get It
There’s a Phone in Your Students Head
Does Social Media Cause Depression?
Our Family’s Smartphone Rules: No Tech in the Bedroom
2019 Children's Mental Health Report: Social Media, Gaming, and Mental Health
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
Student well being
Students in High Achieving Schools are Now Named an At Risk Group
How the Pressure to Be Perfect Affects Kids and What Parents Can Do About it
How to Teach a Child to Reset After a Bad Day
Childhood as “Resume Building”- Why Play Needs to Come Back
How to Manage Intense Emotions-Both Your Child’s and Your Own
Nurturing the Amazing Teen Brain
Protective Factors For Kids: Playtime, Downtime, and Family Time
How to Help Your Teen Make Friends at School
How to Raise Kids Who Can Handle Rejection
Concrete Ways to Help Students Self Regulate and Prioritize Work
How Some Stress Can Actually Be Good For You
The Right Way for Parents to Question Their Teenagers
10 Reasons Teens Have So Much Anxiety Today
How to Help Teenagers Embrace Stress
Why Are More American Teens Than Ever Suffering from Severe Anxiety?
The Friend Effect: Why the Secret of Health and Happiness is Surprisingly Simple
How to Help Teenagers Embrace Stress
parenting
It's the Little Traditions That Mean the Most to Our Teens
How to Get Your Kids to Tell You What Happened at School Today
Taking Back the Family Dinner: How We Created a Mealtime Renaissance
Multitasking is Making Parents Lose it With Their Kids. Here’s How to Break the Cycle
Family Dinners: Five Ways to Make Them Happen Even with Homework and Afterschool Activities
Helicopter Parenting and Bulldozer Parenting are Bad For Everyone-Including Parents
Why Parents Should be Concerned About Their Kid’s ‘EQ,’Not Just Their IQ
The New Parental Obsession: Checking Kids’ Grades Online
Why Intentionally Building Empathy is More Important Now Than Ever
7 Things to Remember When Parenting a Teenager
How I Learned to Let My Kid Fail
How to Raise Successful Kids Without Over Parenting
The Simple Secret to Productive Mornings
How Parents are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood
Top 5 Questions for Parents to Ask Kids
Parenting a Procrastinator? It’s More Complicated Than You Think
Building Character in Teens: One of the 7 C’s in Resilience
How Instant Access to Grades and Other Data is Contributing to Helicopter Parenting
5 Things You Should Expect Your Busy Teen to do This Year
Want to Improve Parent and Teen Communication? Try Validation
An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson
Kids Today are Being Socialized to Think That They’re Fragile Snowflakes
Seven Steps Parents Can Take to Ensure Kids work for the Right Kind of Popularity
5 Ways to Instill Happiness in Your Kids
Parental Burnout is a Real Thing: Here is What You Can Do to Fix It
The Perils of Punishing Kids Too Hard, and How Parents Can Learn to Back Off
Helicopter Parenting Linked to Behavioral Problems in Children, Finds Research
College
The Truth About College Admissions From College Deans
After a College Applicant Hits ‘Send’
Who’s Advise are You Taking? The Fight Over College Counseling at Elite High Schools
Why I Dropped Out of an Ivy League College Just 3 Weeks Into My Freshman Year
High School to College: My Daughter Did High School Her Way
Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity
Report Outlines Persistence of Community College Transfer Students
Preparing for College Emotionally, Not Just Academically
Getting into the Top Colleges: Are Parents Pushing Too Hard?
Does it Matter Where You Go to College?
Are AP Classes Worth It? Why Take AP Classes at All?
A "Fit" Over Rankings- Why College Engagement Matters More Than Selectivity
Stanford University Will No Longer Publicize Admissions Rate
10 Ted Talks Every Potential College Student Should Watch
How to Help a Teenager be College Ready
sports
It’s the Dirty Little Secret that Everyone Knows About
What to Do About That Awful Parent at the Game
Do Sports Actually Teach Character?
The Professionalization of Youth Sports
Abby Wambach on the 3 Things That she Tells Her Kids After Soccer Games
The Downsides of America’s Hyper Competitive Youth Soccer Industry
Behind Every Teen Athlete is an Exhausted Parent
Career readiness
Seven Myths About What it Takes to Raise a Successful Adult
It’s Time to Stop Talking About Tenacity and Start Talking About Character
50% of Millennials Have Left a Job for Mental-Health Reasons, a New Study Found
4 Important Life Skills for Teens No One Talks About
What Straight - A Students Get Wrong
How Many Hours a Teenager Should Work a Week
The Surprising Thing Google Learned About It’s Employees - and What it Means for Today’s Students
Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
It’s Not Liberal Arts and Literature Majors Who Are Most Underemployed