Joanne Jacobs
Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 14, 20181 min read
Transgender suicide risk is high
Half of female-to-male transgender teens have attempted suicide, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Suicide attempts also are...
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 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
Jun 23, 20182 min read
How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20181 min read
Teaching that it’s OK to be gay
NBC News reports on integrating gay, lesbian and transgender issues into classrooms in Colorado. Seven states have “no promo homo” laws...
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
Apr 12, 20181 min read
Parents, stop coddling your kids
Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20181 min read
Don’t blame tech for teen suicides
Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20182 min read
27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 30, 20172 min read
Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
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
Aug 9, 20172 min read
Smartphone teens are lonely, unhappy
The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 22, 20171 min read
Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why
In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
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