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Over the last few months, researchers from Pew have been looking at parents, teenagers and the Internet. They observed teens’ behavior online and how parents are monitoring that behavior: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/07/parents-teens-digital-monitoring/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/01/07/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/ http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/parents-monitoring-teenagers-online-and-mostly-getting-it-right/?_r=0  

This is a very useful blog post on the nutritional component of treatment for ADHD. Full disclosure, the article is written by my wife, who is a nutritionist and registered dietician specializing in Nutrition and ADHD: http://diannerishikof.com/things-you-wished-you-knew-about-adhd-treatment/

Here is a quick description on how melatonin can help with sleep problems: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/12/30/ask-well-does-melatonin-aid-sleep/?smid=tw-share&_r=1&referer=http://m.facebook.com  

Research at the University of North Carolina has found that being lonely is as harmful to teenagers’ health as not getting enough exercise: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-06/study-finds-teenagers-loneliness-bad-for-their-health/7070376 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/02/1511085112.full.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/02/1511085112.abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12018/abstract  

This is an excellent article that dismantles the myth that it is only a recent phenomenon that some young adults struggle to transition to adulthood, and seeks to define what that even means: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/when-are-you-really-an-adult/422487/