Recently I've been exploring wide-spread and enduring beliefs about teenagers. This month I was thinking about how we as a society often explain the risky be...

Recently I've been exploring the myths we tell ourselves about teenagers. Last month, I discussed why we perceive teens as selfish; this month I wanted to pu...

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 their ability to be fle...

This summer I wrote a post about how the delayed released of melatonin effects the sleep patterns of teenagers, and why this means all schools should have a ...

All this summer I’ve been exploring the effects of the developing adolescent brain on adolescent behaviour. Recently I came across this article on NPR about ...

For the past two months, I have been exploring some of the effects that normal brain development has on adolescent behavior. In today’s post, I want to exami...

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 happens when melaton...

Over the next few weeks, I will continue exploring different aspects of adolescent development, and the ways in which these effect adolescent behaviour. This...

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 their vegetables, the ba...