As more fully described in my book about adolescence, Surviving Your Child's Adolescence, the opening stage of adolescence, Early Adolescence, can prove a hard adjustment for parents as they suddenly ...

Regular social media use during early adolescence is linked to weaker reading and vocabulary development over time, new ...

A lot of the appreciation and acceptance of human variation that was slowly broadening in childhood can begin to narrow come ages 9 - 13 when developmental changes of early adolescence provoke more ...

It's common for teenagers go through emotional ups and downs and do things that don't seem rational. Learn the two hallmark ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, researchers investigated the longitudinal relationships between appetitive qualities in early childhood and eating problem symptoms ...

Problematic use of social media—characterized by loss of control and compulsive engagement—may significantly increase ...