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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
    Dawn Spragg
    • Nov 10, 2019
    • 4 min

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

    Whether teens are dating or not, it's a good idea to talk to them about what a healthy relationship looks like.
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    Standing Up to Bullies
    Dawn Spragg
    • Oct 6, 2019
    • 2 min

    Standing Up to Bullies

    Recently a friend shared that her son had witnessed a classmate being mercilessly teased by another student. Although she said he obvious...
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    Suicide Risk Factors
    Dawn Spragg
    • Sep 8, 2019
    • 1 min

    Suicide Risk Factors

    Suicide among teens within the United States were at a record high level in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control. There are...
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    Teens and Anxiety
    Dawn Spragg
    • Jul 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Teens and Anxiety

    The words were hard for the 13 year old sitting across from me in the counseling room. “i want to, but I can’t” she said in practically a...
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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...
    20 views0 comments
    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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    So You Want Your Teen to Be Happy
    Dawn Spragg
    • Nov 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    So You Want Your Teen to Be Happy

    With Thanksgiving this week, I've been thinking a lot about gratitude. Gratitude can act as a bond between people. If someone has been ki...
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    The Best Way to Right A Wrong
    Dawn Spragg
    • Oct 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Best Way to Right A Wrong

    Bullying is one of the most common discipline problems in our public schools. In the past year, 1 in 5 high school students reported bein...
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    Take A Stand Against Bullying
    Dawn Spragg
    • Oct 7, 2018
    • 1 min

    Take A Stand Against Bullying

    The CDC's latest Youth Risk Surveillance found that Arkansas was number one in the percentage of teenagers who were bullied on school pro...
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    What Wasn't Said
    Dawn Spragg
    • Sep 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    What Wasn't Said

    As National Suicide Prevention Month comes to a close, I wanted to share this beautiful poem with you. It was written by a teenager who h...
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    Building Connection
    Dawn Spragg
    • Sep 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Building Connection

    This month is National Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide is a growing problem in the United States, no less so among teens than among adu...
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    Preventing Suicide
    Dawn Spragg
    • Sep 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    Preventing Suicide

    In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month, I wanted to share with you the National Alliance of Mental Health’s tips on preventi...
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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 ...
    57 views0 comments
    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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    Speak the Behaviour
    Dawn Spragg
    • Jun 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Speak the Behaviour

    It’s so easy to remind teenagers about what they are NOT doing and to tell them why they are not doing it. They don't respect their elder...
    83 views0 comments
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