Bringing Out The Best In 8th Grade Girls © Likone Corp 2005 There is arguably no more challenging, unsettling life stage than that of the budding adolescent girl growing up in our culture in modern times. They are inundated with messages of how their self-worth and place in the pecking order is based on their…
Do you remember “Little Johnny”? He starred in the stories about the boy who always got in trouble. Well let me tell you what happened to him… Not surprisingly Little Johnny had a tough go of it through elementary school. He was labeled early on as a problem child. Although test results never substantiated any…
Exploring Emotional Maturity ** Through the lens of Mentor Counseling® ** Research shows that the average American operates intellectually at the level of a sixth grade education. Marketing and advertising is geared towards this level: Coke is it. Just do it. Simple enough for a sixth grader… Simple enough for your average American. What is not…
The statistics on boys in education and mental illness diagnosis are staggering – achievement in school has steadily declined over the past decade while the diagnosis with disorders from ADD to Depression have risen dramatically. How much of this is our problem oriented diagnose and medicate society, versus a real refection of what is going…
How 21st Century Advances Create 21st Century Troubles For Youth – What you should know and what you can do about it – “Thinking that IMing, Email and Text messaging is having a real conversation is the same as thinking that “XO” at the end of a letter is a real hug and kiss.” -Kathryn Blythe…
The 2006 UNICEF Report found the United States ranked 20th out of 21 for the lives and well-being of children and adolescents in the economically advanced nations. (The Netherlands was #1, The UK was the only country doing worse)…. Every parent’s worst nightmares is to find their son or daughter falling into one of the…
An ongoing UCLA research of ‘wired homes’ (homes where everyone has internet and computers) found that these families are spending just 4 minutes a day of uninterrupted time. American kids are spending far greater volumes of time engaged with machines, peers and institutions and are critically disconnected from adults. Read this article in full: Click…
This model of work is based on the premise that what causes struggles for most adolescents is NOT that they have anything wrong with them, but rather that they are ill-prepared to handle the complexities that emerges as they enter this stage of life (relationship issues, awakening sexuality, major life decisions, enormous academic pressure linked…
Whose Rules Are Your Sons Following? What passes for being “the man” today is an insult to the legacy of great men whose truly high moral standard once set the bar on what it meant to be a man. Today’s boys live in a culture that judges their manhood on [Read more, click here: Boys-Rules-Leiken]
MEAN GIRLS – THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT THEM IS TO OUTSMART THEM! One of my biggest contentions with the plethora of books on teen culture that have come out in the past few years is how heavy they are on describing the issues and how light and very general they are on actually giving…