For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Recommended article: How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills by Zaria Borvett An excerpt from the article: According to Ty Tashiro, a psychologist and the author of Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome,...
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Suicide rates for teens have risen between 2010 and 2015 after a nearly two decade decline according to data from the US federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Why the rates went up isn’t known but the rates among US teens occurred at the same time...
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The medical journal The Lancet has examined the impact of social distancing on adolescents. The summary points out that young people between the ages of 10 and 24 need to interact face-to-face with their peers to develop fully, both behaviourally and neurologically....
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‘New 18 now is 28’: How screens delay teens’ emotional maturity – June 14, 2019 – CBC News The big question is why the delay? Rates of self-harm have increased among teens in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe. This is a concern in part because those...
