Parents fighting, parent-teen relationship and teens dealing with stress

September 19, 2014  |   For parents of teenagers   |   Click on title to comment!

This study looked at how teens who have a poor relationship with their parents or whose parents have more conflict tend to respond differently to social evaluation threats http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25090256  

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Couples’ stress

September 19, 2014  |   Uncategorized   |   Click on title to comment!

A new study explores the relationship between work stress, rumination, withdrawing from one’s partner, and marital tension: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24932943

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Exercise and mental focus

September 18, 2014  |   For parents of children,For parents of teenagers   |   Click on title to comment!

A study published this month in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology found that aerobic activity sessions before school helped children with ADHD with their moods and attention spans. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/831942 http://www.boston.com/health/2014/09/16/bdc-exercise-adhd/gm789BOrMjs1FRl4jizJlJ/story.html

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The ADHD brain

September 16, 2014  |   For parents of children,For parents of teenagers,For teens   |   Click on title to comment!

New research has found another revealing difference in the brains of kids with ADHD. The results, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point to a reduced ability among children with ADHD to turn on and off the networks inside the brain that are involved in control and attention. The brain […]

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Two parent families

September 16, 2014  |   For divorced parents,For parents of children,For parents of teenagers   |   Click on title to comment!

Previous research has consistently confirmed that children in married-parent families grow up to be better off financially than the children of single and divorced parents.New research suggests that this is not as much due to having 2 incomes in the family, as previously thought, but may have more to do with have 2 parents with […]

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