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    Adolescents and Risk Taking
    Dawn Spragg
    • May 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    The Mythical Lazy Teen
    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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    Teens Are Selfish. True or False?
    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 the...
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    Sleeping in Seattle
    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 sc...
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    Adolescence & Brain Development: What Teens are Reading
    Dawn Spragg
    • Aug 20, 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 a...
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    Adolescence & Brain Development: The Struggle To Fit In
    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 p...
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    Adolescence & Brain Development: Why Your Teenager Is Still Sleeping
    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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    Adolescence and Brain Development: You're Stressing Me Out
    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 adoles...
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    Adolescence and Brain Development: Responding to Reward
    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 thei...
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