15 of the Best Movies About Teen Angst to Watch After ‘Turning Red’
Screenshot: Now and Then/New Line Cinema Not entirely unlike Inside Out a few years back, the new Pixar film Turning Red stars a character confronting her own adolescence and the…
Is Your Child Too Popular for Their Own Good?
It’s impossible for thoughtful parents to not to worry about their child’s popularity. You can’t remember your own Lords-of-the Flies-with-hairspray high school social experience and not wonder whether you’ve prepared…
What We Actually Know About How Social Media Affects Teens’ Mental Health
Photo: CarlosBarquero (Shutterstock) Instagram makes teen girls feel worse about their bodies, according to internal Facebook documents published in the Wall Street Journal. (Facebook owns Instagram.) The app is full…
What Parents Need to Know About Teens and Online Dating
Even before the pandemic, much of a teenager’s social life played out online. Socializing with friends (and frenemies) didn’t stop when the final bell of the school day rang—it carried…
How to Help Your Struggling Tween
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) We’re just about a year into this pandemic, and it’s been hard on basically everyone. From toddlers who can’t socialize with their little toddler friends to the…