Learning Team A EDD 563

Self esteem during the middle school years.... what parents can do to nurture positive self esteem

Adolescents use technology to communicate about sexual health

Having her image photoshopped to be "beautiful" in different countries had an impact on Honig's self perception. Interesting to see the different cultural ideas of beauty.

Patterns of self esteem in adolescents and how to raise self esteem in adolescents.

Article provides advice on how to maintain a child's self esteem.

More information on self-esteem during adolescence

TED conversation on how people define their idea of beauty.

Common stress factors for adolescents, how to react, how they cope and how gender, socioeconomic status, and race tie into adolescent stress

Lists and explains different factors that tie into adolescent alienation.

Unemployed high school dropout Tremain Hutchinson spent a lot of time talking to young girls on Tagged.com, a teen chat site. Sometimes he was "Mario," sometimes "Quan" or "Money," but Hutchinson, 28, always pretended to be a cute 16-year-old Georgia boy. He used a photo of a younger cousin in the profiles.

Describes various ways that parents can collaborate with teachers in the classroom to get more involved in their child's education.

Article about how the nature of compromise changes as a child develops into an adolescent.

Research on the 5 best attitudes of effective teachers

If your child has a learning disability, or performance or behavior problems, this issue becomes magnified. Your child might feel as if he's fallen into a hole and doesn't know how to climb back out. (That hole can be caused by missed work, not understanding certain concepts at school, or social problems, among other things.)

It's the last thing any parent wants to hear her child say. "Mom, I didn't make the basketball team." Or "Dad, NYU rejected me." Even the incredulous "She invited everyone but me!" is enough to make your stomach churn. "Rejection is like breathing-an unavoidable, important part of life," says Harlan Cohen, founder of the International Risk-Taking Project.

Learn how even busy parents can help out their kids' schools -- whether you have 3 hours a day, a week or month or a year. When parents are involved in their children's education, children succeed at higher rates.

Child and adolescent theories and theorists

More on developmental theories

Helping parents with teens

Information on the developing adolescents.

Media's effects on teens

Research on new ways that parents can reach out to their adolescents. Specifically research on adolescent reaction to parental monitoring.