“As children age, they naturally develop a delay in their onset of sleep, or their sleep phase. It’s part of natural maturation. And kids get to sleep around 10 o’clock or even 11 o’clock into the later teenage years.” – Jeffrey Durmer, M.D., explaining one reason why teenagers tend to stay up so late at […]
“There’s over a hundred classes. And almost all of them are more specific than you would normally get at a high school level.” – Steve Quesinberry, Virtual High School Teacher We know kids are spending a lot of time online, but according to a new report in Education Week, more of that time is spent […]
“Dr. Johnston: I’m glad you had your helmet on. Dane: Me, too.” – Dr. Carden Johnston, ER Pediatrician, and Dane, Age 11, after a bicycle accident shattered Dane’s helmet According to the latest research from the CDC, a large majority of kids rarely or never wear a bike helmet… known to reduce the risk of […]
“We don’t listen enough as parents, or teachers. And if we listen and understand what kids really thrive on, individual kids, then we can find a book or a magazine that will fit their interest.” – David Payne, former high school principal Data from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests some small changes in the way […]
“It’s very, very easy for students to become over-committed very quickly and to lose sight of why they’re in college.” – Sherrie Nist, Ph.D., Professor College students leave for campus packed with hopes and dreams. Yet, according to research from the American Enterprise Institute, nationally, just over half of entering students – 53 percent – […]
“This phenomenon is where you get rapid brain swelling and death; it’s 80 percent mortality. It’s thought to be caused by having a second head injury prior to recovery from the first.” – Dr. David Wright, M.D., emergency medicine, Emory University More than 3 million high school athletes will suffer from a sports-related injury this […]
“You can push too much and that’ll shut the child down. So it’s a fine balance: Be available, be a good listener, and also know when you do need to push in case they’re into some things that they shouldn’t be.” – Gloria Meaux, Ph.D., psychologist Between a parent and a teenager, this might be […]
“(My sons are) scared and you’re nervous and you want to fit in. And hopefully they’ll come home and talk about it. And I know Kyle was worried about getting beaten up…and that’s the first time he’s mentioned that.” – Carrie, mother of teens According to a survey of 6,500 teens by the Partnership for […]
“I started drinking when I was 13.” – Christine, Age 17 The Princeton Review just released its ranking of the nation’s biggest party schools – billed as the list of colleges where students really know how to have a good time. For some kids, those times are starting way before college. CDC research reports that […]
“The more ads [teens] get to see, the higher the probability that they will try alcohol at an early age.” – Dr. Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D., Addiction Specialist Drugs, smoking, alcohol. They are concerns parents have for all teens, but new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs reports that Hispanic middle school […]
