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A new study out of Rutgers University found that students who didn’t text anymore after lights out or less than 30 minutes after turning off the lights significantly performed better in school, compared to those who stayed up late more than 30 minutes after turning off lights to continue texting: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160126162227.htm http://www.parentherald.com/articles/17771/20160126/night-texting-affects-teenagers-grades-study.htm http://news.rutgers.edu/research-news/texting-night-affects-teens’-sleep-academic-performance/20160121#.Vqk8cTbw_ow

Here are some ways to help parents set guidelines and manage their kids’ time online: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/cant-get-your-child-off-the-internet-these-gadgets-can-help-1450804818-lMyQjAxMTE2NDI2NjcyMjY3Wj  

In order to learn to tolerate emotions, I find that it helps to think of them as if you are standing in the ocean, facing out to sea, with the water at about your waistline, your back to the beach. Now imagine that a wave is coming towards you. You cannot stop it. You cannot […]

Sarah Smith, director of the Start Talking! program, cites research that finds that  shows that kids are up to 50 percent less likely to use drugs if they simply talk about it with parents or other trusted adults: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/01/kids_less_likely_to_abuse_drug.html  

Colin Espie, professor of sleep medicine at Oxford University claims a smelly room could interfere with a teenager’s ability to sleep properly.: “The smelly teenager’s bedroom is a byproduct of the fact that the room is full of rebreathed air, which is low in oxygen and high in nitrogen. If you keep on rebreathing the same […]