Nothing about peer relationships is straightforward.
Teens and Their Complicated Friendships
When friendships serve and when they don't.
When friendships serve and when they don’t.
Teens and Their Productive Obsessions
There are two kinds of obsessions, productive ones and unproductive ones, and that while the second are terrible, the first are rather wonderful.
There are two kinds of obsessions, productive ones and unproductive ones, and that while the second are terrible, the first are rather wonderful.
5 Tips for Teens Labelled ADHD
What to do when it's hard to pay attention
What to do when it’s hard to pay attention
Why Alienated Teens Are Hungry for Escape
“I have to get out of here”.
“I have to get out of here”.
How Teens Can Make Meaning
Why understanding the paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning is crucial.
Why understanding the paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning is crucial..
Teenagers in Russia
The universality of the challenges smart teens face.
The universality of the challenges smart teens face.
The Reality of Teenage Loneliness
How our loneliness epidemic is affecting our teens.
How our loneliness epidemic is affecting our teens.
Smart Teens, High Anxiety
What smart teen isn’t highly sensitive? This high anxiety plays itself out in all sorts of ways and one poignant way is in joylessness.
What smart teen isn’t highly sensitive? This high anxiety plays itself out in all sorts of ways and one poignant way is in joylessness.
Smart Teens, Powerful Addictions
How native intelligence and risk addiction connect.
How native intelligence and risk addiction connect.
When Smart Teens Don’t Know How Smart They Are
Their brightness is hidden under a bushel, hidden from others but also hidden from themselves.
Their brightness is hidden under a bushel, hidden from others but also hidden from themselves.
Why Smart Teens Hide Their Intelligence
Navigating the challenge of limited intellectual opportunities.
Navigating the challenge of limited intellectual opportunities.
The Pain and Power of Teenage Idealism
When words like “fairness” and “justice” and “rights” and “equality” begin to percolate in a brain, it is a natural next step to think, “Yes, those are clearly righteous things,” followed by, “And I am for them and want them.”
When words like “fairness” and “justice” and “rights” and “equality” begin to percolate in a brain, it is a natural next step to think, “Yes, those are clearly righteous things,” followed by, “And I am for them and want them.”
Travels on the International Bohemian Highway
What smart, creative, sensitive teens long for
What smart, creative, sensitive teens long for
When You Face Nothingness
It is a natural consequence of being smart to feel that life is missing something.
It is a natural consequence of being smart to feel that life is missing something.
Is it Depression … Or Existential Sadness?
Problems are not medical disorders.
Problems are not medical disorders.