Joanne Jacobs
Surgeon General: Social media is hazardous for your kids' health
Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 8
- 3 min
The politics of parenting
Permissive parenting -- known as "gentle" or "mindful" or "intentional" parenting -- is spreading among left-of-center parents, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Digital danger: Screen time is stealing childhood
Screen time is very bad for kids, argues Michel Desmurget, a French neuroscientist, in Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 11
- 2 min
Anxious teens: Are they working too hard in school?
Dropping SAT/ACT requirements at elite colleges could make ambitious teenagers even more anxious, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. ...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 5
- 2 min
TikTok sets limits for teens as mental health worries grow
Social media is a major cause of the mental illness epidemic in teen girls, argues social psychologist Jon Haidt. Fifty-seven percent of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 11
- 1 min
What parents worry about
Depression and anxiety are the top worries of parents, according to a Pew Research Center survey, report Rachel Minkin and Juliana...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Happy days: Connect, care about others, cope
Happy people are kind to others and to themselves, says Laurie Santos. The Yale psychology professor is offering a free, six-week course,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
Fighting fears
Zidaan Kapoor, a math-loving 15-year-old, coped with his anxiety about severe food allergies by creating a "fight fears" app for other...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Protected kids become anxious adults
In an “Adulting 101” workshop, Kansas State students talk about "conflict" as though "it's this terrible thing," said Brett Mallon, an...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 17, 2022
- 3 min
'Are my kids going to be scared to come to school?'
Two teen-age boys were killed yesterday, and a boy and girl were wounded as they left their Chicago high school at the end of the day,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Teachers were more anxious about Covid than health-care workers
Teachers were more anxious than health care workers -- or anyone else -- during the first year of the pandemic, according to a newly...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Some like it virtual: Will online students learn less?
Enrollment is climbing in virtual schools, even as pandemic fears wane, reports Asher Lehrer-Small on The 74. Online schools saw an...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Failing college: Covid kids can't do the math
For a year or more, their high school classes were online. Perhaps they returned to an on-and-off schedule with frequent quarantine...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 27, 2022
- 2 min
Teacher, counselor, therapist: Is it too much?
As students' emotional and mental health needs soar, teachers are being asked to serve as ad hoc counselors, therapists and social...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min
Without phones, school is calmer and students are listening, talking
Banning cell phones transformed a Philadelphia high school, reports Kristen A. Graham in the Inquirer. Students were ignoring teachers --...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
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 4, 2022
- 2 min
It's college, not kindergarten
Of the three million students who will start college this fall, one million won't make it through the first year on campus or won't...
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