Joanne Jacobs
Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 2, 20181 min read
No clapping, please. Use your ‘jazz hands’
Clapping and cheering have been banned at University of Manchester Student Union events, lest the noise upset “students with anxiety or...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 2, 20181 min read
The power of struggle
Zachary Wright “had to drag my son kicking and screaming into kindergarten.” He remembered his own “struggles with anxiety, depression...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 1, 20182 min read
Lawnmower parents raise anxious kids
A middle-school teacher is called to the office so Dad can hand over his child’s water bottle. The girl doesn’t like drinking from the...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20181 min read
Those unhappy college years
Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,”...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 12, 20182 min read
Teens demand the right to remain silent
Ninety percent of hiring managers say oral communications is a critical skill for job-seekers, according to a recent survey by the...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 3, 20182 min read
New teen fiction genre: School shootings
Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20181 min read
What Gen Z isn’t learning in middle school
Middle schoolers are communicating more, but connecting less, writes Alex Whitcomb on Medium. Middle-school relationships are crucial, he...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20182 min read
Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20182 min read
Raising self-regulating kids
Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...
Joanne Jacobs
May 31, 20182 min read
22% of Pomona students are ‘disabled’
classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 20, 20182 min read
Mental illness in school: What can teachers do?
A high school teacher might see eight to 30 students a day with serious mental health issues such as bipolar disorder, depression and...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 2, 20171 min read
Higher ed anxiety: What can colleges do?
Students with mental-health problems, especially anxiety and depression, are flooding college health centers. The most selective colleges...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20172 min read
Parents don’t see value of kids’ play
Parents value structured activities over free play, according to a Gallup survey, “despite research associating unstructured, child-led...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 16, 20172 min read
Anxiety is way up for teens: Why?
Severe anxiety afflicts more U.S. teens than ever, writes Benoit Denizet-Lewis in the New York Times Magazine. What’s going on? Over the...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20173 min read
Stick and stones may break my bones …
Speech is violence, if it causes chronic stress, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern psychology professor, in The New York Times....
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