Adolescents and Risk Taking
Recently I've been exploring wide-spread and enduring beliefs about teenagers. This month I was thinking about how we as a society often...
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Dawn Spragg
- Apr 10, 2019
- 3 min
The Mythical Lazy Teen
Recently I've been exploring the myths we tell ourselves about teenagers. Last month, I discussed why we perceive teens as selfish; this...
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Dawn Spragg
- Mar 6, 2019
- 3 min
Teens Are Selfish. True or False?
I love working with teens. I love their optimism, and their energy and their resiliency. I love their way of looking at the world and...
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Dawn Spragg
- Dec 19, 2018
- 1 min
Sleeping in Seattle
This summer I wrote a post about how the delayed released of melatonin effects the sleep patterns of teenagers, and why this means all...
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Dawn Spragg
- Aug 19, 2018
- 1 min
Adolescence & Brain Development: What Teens are Reading
All this summer I’ve been exploring the effects of the developing adolescent brain on adolescent behaviour. Recently I came across this...
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Dawn Spragg
- Aug 5, 2018
- 2 min
Adolescence & Brain Development: The Struggle To Fit In
For the past two months, I have been exploring some of the effects that normal brain development has on adolescent behavior. In today’s...
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Dawn Spragg
- Jul 25, 2018
- 2 min
Adolescence & Brain Development: Why Your Teenager Is Still Sleeping
This summer I am exploring some of the effects that the adolescent brain has on adolescent behaviour, and today I wanted to look at what...
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Dawn Spragg
- Jul 1, 2018
- 2 min
Adolescence and Brain Development: You're Stressing Me Out
Over the next few weeks, I will continue exploring different aspects of adolescent development, and the ways in which these effect...
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Dawn Spragg
- Jun 17, 2018
- 2 min
Adolescence and Brain Development: Responding to Reward
So much has been written -and read!- about the development of very young children, as if once we've got our kids sleeping and eating...
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