Learning Team A EDD 563

This is how sibling relationships are impacting child development. It is aimed for parents, but also be used in a middle school classroom to help understand teenagers.

Reaching out to diverse families in order to improve their children's learning

Self Concept in children

Along with cognitive and physical development, adolescents develop empathy skills. Research on what improves and inhibits empathy development.

Effective Interventions for adolescents.

Parents can influence teen sexual behavior

A study of the media's impact on adolescents' sexual behavior and values, as well as development of a scientific view on the effects these behaviors will have on adolescents.

Factors that play into adolescents turning to drug use as well as other resources about adolescent drug use and help.

Help for parents, informing them of reasons teens run away and how to prevent their child from running away from home.

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.

The impact of race and ethnicity on identity development in children

This article has great ways to help teens improve their self esteem.

Examines the effects of bullying and its victims and also offers strategies to combat this issue.

Discusses self esteem among nonwhite groups.

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.