Timothy D. Wilson, a social psychologist out of the University of Virginia author of Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change, discussing the mertis of “story editing” to facilitate changing behavior: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/03/revising.aspx
Read More »Math problems
March 05, 2012 | For parents of teenagers,metaphors to help facilitate communication | Click on title to comment!
Imagine your teen is 8 years old. Would you give her advanced calculus to work on? And if you did, would you yell at her if she didn’t know how to do it? Probably not. The problem is that society treats emotional development very differently than academic development, although there are many similarities.[i] We want […]
Read More »Teens and Tech
March 03, 2012 | For parents of teenagers | Click on title to comment!
How texting has become part of teen social culture: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-01/text-a-little-less-and-think-a-little-more-carter http://jjie.org/for-growing-number-of-teens-cell-phones-arent-for-talking-study-says/81544 http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2012/0410/Teen-text-messaging-up-but-do-they-yack-more-than-parents-did On the effect of social media on teens: http://www.scoop.it/t/the-affect-of-social-networking-on-teenage-communication http://www.newpaltzx.com/2012/03/14/our-kids-and-the-internet/ On the benefits of playing video games: http://blogs.wsj.com/wsjam/2012/03/09/why-parents-should-embrace-videogames/ And thoughts on parenting teens with new tech: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/mar/26/double-take-parents-must-teach-kids-technology-eth/ http://www.kcur.org/post/parents-teens-technology http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120406/Steps-to-reduce-risk-of-social-media-sites-among-teenagers.aspx http://bethel.patch.com/articles/teens-react-as-technology-effects-family-dynamics An opinion on when to let kids have their own cell phone, and […]
Read More »On drugs and alcohol
March 03, 2012 | For parents of teenagers | Click on title to comment!
Some tips and reassuring facts for parents of teens: http://www.lakepowellchronicle.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=81&story_id=3056 Teenagers who turn their backs on a healthy lifestyle and turn to drink, cigarettes and junk food are significantly unhappier than their healthier peers: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302082911.htm A recent study suggests that teens that watch movies that feature a lot of alcohol consumption are more likely to […]
Read More »Learning at home
February 29, 2012 | For parents of children,For parents of teenagers,For teens | Click on title to comment!
For those wishing to beef up their skill and improve their performance at school. This site offers a free extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments covering K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, […]
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