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The blog will be offline for February break, and resume the week of Feb 25th

This article offers thoughts and tips: http://mom.me/parenting/the-social-scene/dating-sex/5890-helping-my-daughter-deal-first-crush/  

Research shows that teens will send and responds to texts while half asleep, sometimes with unfortunate consequences:     http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/343389   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277916/Sleep-texters-Teenagers-answer-messages-arent-awake.html  

“By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means correct… a person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal, he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him, […]

A new study published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry revealed a significantly higher prevalence of substance abuse and cigarette use by adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) histories than in those without ADHD. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/uops-lss021113.php