Bookmarked April 21, 2015 “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Articles on Parenting Ready to Try Some Free-Range Parenting? Free-Range Parenting-It’s a new, hands- off approach to raising kids. Should you give it a try? Free-range Kids How Helicopter Parents are Ruining College Students I Am a Helicopter Parent-And I Don’t Apologize Global Parenting Habits That Haven’t Caught on in the U.S. How Cultures Around the World Think About Parenting Here are some resources for free, copyright-clear images, video and audio: Creation Tools: WeVideo Audacity PieMonkey Copyright-cleared Video and Images: The Moving Image Archive The Public Domain Review Morgue File Pixabay Music and sound-cleared: Free Music Archive SoundGator The Teenage Brain… Years ago, National Geographic Magazine ran an article, Beautiful Brains . It was fascinating. All of us spend our lives with teenagers, so much of what the article had to say was no surprise, but the psychology and biology behind what we know to be true was intriguing. I loved the consequences/rewards analogy. So, a teenager knows that driving down a dark country road at 95 M.P.H. is dangerous and has possible deadly consequences, but the reward the teenager receives from the experience far outweigh the consequence. This explains so much about that seemingly “impulsive” kid. Last week I also read a MindShift Q and A: Plumbing the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain . This article deals more with the issues of drug and sex- education in schools and the failure of these programs, because teenagers aren’t “plumbed” to care about consequences. Laurence Steinberg lays out in his new book, Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence, that adolescence is the formative time to start teaching self-control, as the brain is in a state of plasticity. His experiments also indicate that the education system, the legal system and parenting has not caught up with the new research around the teenage brain. This is great food for thought!
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Bookmarked
April 21, 2015
“There are only two
lasting bequests we can
hope to give our
children. One of these is
roots, the other, wings.
~Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
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aGFGyqxDQG7QFjL.99
Great Articles on Parenting
Ready to Try Some Free-Range Parenting?
Free-Range Parenting-It’s a new, hands-
off approach to raising kids. Should you
give it a try?
Free-range Kids
How Helicopter Parents are Ruining
College Students
I Am a Helicopter Parent-And I Don’t
Apologize
Global Parenting Habits That Haven’t
Caught on in the U.S.
How Cultures Around the World Think
About Parenting
Here are some resources for free, copyright-clear images, video and audio:
Creation Tools:
WeVideo
Audacity
PieMonkey
Copyright-cleared Video and Images:
The Moving Image Archive
The Public Domain Review
Morgue File
Pixabay
Music and sound-cleared:
Free Music Archive
SoundGator
The Teenage Brain…
Years ago, National Geographic Magazine ran an article, Beautiful Brains. It was fascinating. All of us spend
our lives with teenagers, so much of what the article had to say was no surprise, but the psychology and
biology behind what we know to be true was intriguing. I loved the consequences/rewards analogy. So, a
teenager knows that driving down a dark country road at 95 M.P.H. is dangerous and has possible deadly
consequences, but the reward the teenager receives from the experience far outweigh the consequence.
This explains so much about that seemingly “impulsive” kid. Last week I also read a MindShift Q and A:
Plumbing the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain. This article deals more with the issues of drug and sex-
education in schools and the failure of these programs, because teenagers aren’t “plumbed” to care about
consequences. Laurence Steinberg lays out in his new book, Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New
Science of Adolescence, that adolescence is the formative time to start teaching self-control, as the brain is
in a state of plasticity. His experiments also indicate that the education system, the legal system and
parenting has not caught up with the new research around the teenage brain. This is great food for thought!
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