The 2006 UNICEF Report found the United States ranked 20th out of 21 for the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations. (The Netherlands was #1, The UK was the only country doing worse)…. Every parent’s worst nightmares is to find their son or daughter falling into one of the…
An ongoing UCLA research of ‘wired homes’ (homes where everyone has internet and computers) found that these families are spending just 4 minutes a day of uninterrupted time. American kids are spending far greater volumes of time engaged with machines, peers and institutions and are critically disconnected from adults. Read this article in full: Click…
This model of work is based on the premise that what causes struggles for most adolescents is NOT that they have anything wrong with them, but rather that they are ill-prepared to handle the complexities that emerges as they enter this stage of life (relationship issues, awakening sexuality, major life decisions, enormous academic pressure linked…
Whose Rules Are Your Sons Following? What passes for being “the man” today is an insult to the legacy of great men whose truly high moral standard once set the bar on what it meant to be a man. Today’s boys live in a culture that judges their manhood on [Read more, click here: Boys-Rules-Leiken]
MEAN GIRLS – THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT THEM IS TO OUTSMART THEM! One of my biggest contentions with the plethora of books on teen culture that have come out in the past few years is how heavy they are on describing the issues and how light and very general they are on actually giving…
On October 1st I’ll have lived in my current place 20 years. In January it will be 22 years I’ve called San Francisco home. Over the years many trends have come and gone. I’ve watched the dot.com boom then implode. I’ve watched the 49ers be a dynasty, then become a laughingstock. I watched Barry Bonds…