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Topless teens
More transgender and gender-neutral teenagers are having "top surgery" -- double mastectomies -- to make their bodies conform with their...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 26, 20221 min read


Most boys should start school a year later than girls
Boys should start school a year later than girls, argues Richard V. Reeves in The Atlantic. Boys are slower to mature and benefit from...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 22, 20223 min read


Fear not
Every night when I put my daughter to bed, I would say, "There are no wolves or bears in Palo Alto. They live a long way away." How old...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 11, 20222 min read


'My future is bright,' teens believe
Young people are optimistic about their futures, reports ACT. More than 80 percent of those surveyed believe their lives will turn out...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 10, 20221 min read


Get kids off social media
"Social media is no place for kids," writes Yuval Levin in a New York Times op-ed. He advocates raising the age requirement for social...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 5, 20222 min read


It’s a hot summer job market for youth
Working as a lifeguard was a dangerous job in “Stranger Things.” A red-hot summer job market awaits teenagers, reports Paul Wiseman and...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20221 min read


When does adulthood start?
Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good: Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America. No buying...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20222 min read


Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....

Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20221 min read


‘I’m sending my kids to screen-free schools’
Photo: Natureaddict/Pixabay Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist. As a teacher,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 6, 20221 min read


Those unhappy college years
Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,”...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20181 min read


The babysitter is a spycam
spycam is the babysitter, reports Ronda Kaysen in the New York Times. Working parents can use an array of security devices to keep tabs...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20181 min read


Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20182 min read


What Gen Z isn’t learning in middle school
Middle schoolers are communicating more, but connecting less, writes Alex Whitcomb on Medium. Middle-school relationships are crucial, he...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20181 min read
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