What color is the dress? This question has been asked countless times in the last few weeks. From Internet feeds to office water coolers, people have been buzzing over the color composition of a simple …
Brain Growth
Is your teen’s bedroom a disaster area?
We’re still talking about messy rooms! Send us a picture of your teen’s messy room to receive a FREE book about teens! Reference the post below (republished from last week on Parenthetical) to learn more about …
Parenthetical’s Top 10 Posts of 2014
As 2014 winds down, we are feeling especially grateful for all the thoughtful dialogue, growth, and dedicated viewership Parenthetical has experienced over the last year. During the last year, Parenthetical has increased site membership significantly …
Laura Kastner on Helping Teens Learn from Mistakes
Dr. Laura Kastner is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington. She is the co-author of several books for parents of adolescents including one of our favorite parenting books …
Teens are Risk Junkies
It probably won’t take much to recall a time when we (as teens) or our children made questionable decisions. This week on Parenthetical we are reposting an article from March 2014 that talks about some …
The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain
“How is impulsive and oblivious teenage behavior connected to their brain growth and change?” Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the human brain in social settings, such as how our brains make it …
Motivating son to put more effort into school work
My 15 year old son’s grades have steadily been declining throughout his freshman year. His teachers say that he is well behaved and contributes in class, but agree that he is underachieving. How do I …
What IS going on in that head of his?
One hallmark of being a parent of a teen is the number of times a day you mutter, “What is he thinking?” under your breath. My mother’s mantra used to be, “Sure, she’s weird, but …
The Absent Minded Teen: “Someone stole part of my kid’s brain”
Until fairly recently, it was generally believed that that the brain was pretty much done growing by adolescence. However, twenty-first century technology has allowed scientists to make an amazing and somewhat startling discovery. The brain grows just as much during …